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Iran: Khamenei says coronavirus outbreak “not such a big tragedy” and can be overcome through “jihad”

Mar 5, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A new kind of “jihad” has entered the discourse: “health jihad.” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now asserting that “the ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak in his country is ‘not such a big tragedy’ and one that Tehran can overcome through health ‘jihad.'” Khameinei further stated:

I feel it is my duty to once again thank these dear ones who are doing Jihad for the sake of God with their invaluable efforts. I ask God to bring health to the sick, to grant His mercy on the deceased, and to bestow patience and tranquillity on their survivors.

Some of the devoted have gone so far now to be “licking the shrines in order to infect themselves, thus protecting future pilgrims from contracting the virus.” If any Jews or Christians were doing this, it would be plastered on front pages everywhere.

“Ayatollah Praises Iran’s ‘Jihad’ on Coronavirus, Calls It ‘Not Such a Big Tragedy,’” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, March 3, 2020:

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asserted in remarks Tuesday that the ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak in his country is “not such a big tragedy” and one that Tehran can overcome through health “jihad.”

Khamenei added that the Islamic regime has addressed it with “sincerity” despite widespread complaints from even those within the government that the regime is lying about the number of cases.

Iran claims it has confirmed 2,336 cases of Wuhan coronavirus in the country and, among those, 77 people have died. These numbers differ significantly from what reports on the ground from dissident groups suggest. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI /MEK), a dissident organization that relies on sources inside the country for its reports, claimed on Monday it had evidence of as many as 1,000 deaths due to the Chinese coronavirus nationwide. Multiple Iranian lawmakers have also alleged they have reason to believe the official government tallies are artificially suppressing the true number of cases.

“I feel it is my duty to once again thank these dear ones who are doing Jihad for the sake of God with their invaluable efforts,” Khamenei said in his remarks, which occurred during a tree-planting ceremony for Iran’s “Week of Natural Resources.” “I ask God to bring health to the sick, to grant His mercy on the deceased, and to bestow patience and tranquillity on their survivors.”

Khamenei said that any action that helps the virus spread “is a sin” and that all Iranian citizens must obey the Ministry of Health or face significant consequences. He attempted to portray the virus as a mild threat to the country not comparable to others the regime has faced in the past.

“The Coronavirus is not such a big tragedy and this country has surmounted graver ones. However, beseeching God, seeking intercession from the Prophet and his Household, and the prayers of the pure youth and pious are very effective in repelling major tragedies,” Khamenei claimed. “I don’t want to say it’s unimportant, but let’s not exaggerate it either. The Coronavirus will affect the country briefly & leave. But the experience it brings, and the actions of the people & the govt sectors, are like a public exercise that will remain as an achievement.”…

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:11 am

    facebook footage shows enormous mass graves prepared by excavators and bulldozers – “not such a. big tragedy”.

    • Westman says

      Mar 5, 2020 at 10:38 pm

      Khamenei seems to have forgotten that that the 1918 Pandemic, a cousin of Covid-19, had an unusually high death rate for Persians. “In Iran, the mortality was very high: according to an estimate, between 902,400 and 2,431,000, or 8% to 22% of the total population died.” – wiki

      Iran also has a very young population, the average age is less that 30. That means many pregnancies.

      Again: “According to historian John M. Barry, the most vulnerable of all – “those most likely, of the most likely”, to die – were pregnant women. He reported that in thirteen studies of hospitalized women in the pandemic, the death rate ranged from 23% to 71%.[82] Of the pregnant women who survived childbirth, over one-quarter (26%) lost the child.”

      Allah wasn’t willing in 1918. What makes the Grand Ayatollah thnk Allah cares about his pampered, parasitic, —-, today. He knows the whole religion is a scam, yet, it’s good to be the king; the scam master.

  2. ChristianIndeed says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:21 am

    Hand washing wouldn’t hurt, especially after going to the toilet. Go on, start a new trend, it’s not too late.

  3. Vyx says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:23 am

    Jihad. Is there anything it cannot accomplish? [eye roll]

    • roberta says

      Mar 5, 2020 at 12:14 pm

      Got to love it. The solution to islam and all other problems is always more islam.

      I dont for a minute think these old imams really believe in this foolishness.(islam)
      They have gone too far out of their way to enrich themselves with
      worldly possessions.

      • Ray Jarman says

        Mar 5, 2020 at 12:59 pm

        Can you imagine Michael Higgins, president of Ireland, advised the people of his nation to go and kiss the Cloch na Blarnan, more commonly called the Blarney Stone, to drive the coronavirus away?

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 5, 2020 at 10:17 pm

        So true, Vyx and roberta.

    • FYI says

      Mar 6, 2020 at 10:00 am

      wanna lose weight?Jihad

      wanna fix your car?Jihad

      wanna get along with your neighbors?Jihad

      wanna settle tax affairs?Jihad

      wanna grow vegetables and live off the Grid?Jihad

      wanna recycle stuff and protect the planet?Jihad

      wanna overcome serious illness?Jihad

      Jihad:the islamic solution to everything.

  4. Kesselman says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:25 am

    As usual, the sh**t- supreme head is full of crabs (hopefully pinching). Like all fascists, the towel-head boasts of what he fears the most: death!

  5. Wilfred says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:31 am

    This is nothing new. Every authoritarian regime goes out of the way to propogating a lie which in turn secures it’s own future. Even the likelihood of a free, open democratic societies must be giving sleepless nights to Ayatollah. You can fool some of the people some of the time, however you cannot fool all the people all the time. Civil war is imminent on Iran and it’s own rulers are to be blamed for the downfall of their country.

  6. WithPurpleAbandon says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:34 am

    Licking the shrines, no less ? What else will they be licking ? Persepolis ? Cyrus’ Tomb ? Khomeini’s mausoleum ?

    lol

    • Rarely says

      Mar 5, 2020 at 5:16 pm

      “First you fill your mouth with soap…”
      For a REALLY clean shrine use Lysol.

  7. Don says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 8:52 am

    Confirmation that the Crazy Train still passes through Iran!

  8. ElderlyZionist says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 9:37 am

    “Khamenei said that any action that helps the virus spread ‘is a sin’ and that all Iranian citizens must obey the Ministry of Health or face significant consequence.”

    “TP for every bunghole! Or else!” – Ayatollah Conrholio

  9. infidel says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 11:11 am

    What a mad barbaric creature!!!

  10. Rarely says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    “Health jihad”???
    No wonder it’s so hard finding eye of newt these days.

  11. CogitoErgoSum says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 2:11 pm

    I wish “Allah” would not be translated into English as “God.” Allah is the god of the Muslims but not necessarily what a vast number of other people consider to be “God.” If Allah in Arabic means “the god” why not translate it into English that way? Muslims follow Jihad for the sake of the Muslim god, not for the sake of God. Not everyone believes that Allah is God but translating “Allah” into “God” makes it appear to be so.

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    When Ayatollah Khamenei had declared that the coronavirus outbreak “not such a big tragedy” and can be overcome through ‘jihad’ ” he must have had been talking out of both sides of his Muslim .month .

    This is because according to Islam’s Quran, Allah is the one behind conronaviris , so how can it be overcome through jihad” ? What a contradiction of reason !

    For of course Islam is not based on reason. Nevertheless since Allah has ordered the jihad, Sura 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 this god of Islam,Allah had also ordered the plague of coronavirus to be inflected on humankind . For this is also one of the doctrines of the Quran.

    For in Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .

    This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”

    Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty and thes ending and infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.

  13. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 4:16 pm

    Just how irrational can Ayatollah Khamenei be when he said that “the coronavirus outbreak … can be overcome through “jihad” What about overcoming the coronavirus by and through the science of medical research ? Khamenei must be irrational and ignorant as his own words reveal .

    Related to this is that a young Iranian woman who now lives in an American city that I now also live in. This city has a newspaper and she wrote an article how she and her mother had returned from visiting her sick and dying grandmother in the hospital in Tehran in Iran In that article this young women explained that the medical and health care in Iran’s hospitals is so terrible that the people of Iran view hospitals s place that people go to not get better but to die. The reason the this second point is brought up is that the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as others in power in this Islamic tyranny Iran will not invest those news funds from, Obama and Kerry, in better health care in hospitals but instead use that money to engage in more support for brutal and murderous militant jihad organizations . For those tyrants in power in Iran don’t care, at all, about the Iranian people. They are only interested in furthering their mad jihad Islamic quest.

  14. gravenimage says

    Mar 5, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    Iran: Khamenei says coronavirus outbreak “not such a big tragedy” and can be overcome through “jihad”
    ………………….

    Jihad–it cures what ails ya! sarc/off

  15. FYI says

    Mar 6, 2020 at 10:24 am

    Exercise Jihad!

    Let’s begin with 5 push ups..in our islamic aerobics exercise routine
    {wudu,halal food diet only,no infidel beer or bacon, 5 times a day after “prayers”}

    Instructor:1…2….3..

    allah:{koran 4:171} CEASE!Say not “3”.It is better for you!

    Instructor:whaaat?Oh Ok allah…1…2…4…5

  16. Bowen G says

    Mar 10, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    The New Arab
    Applying essential oil to anus ‘cures coronavirus’: Iranian cleric

    Ayatollah Tabrizian has publicly denounced Western medicine as ‘un-Islamic’, Twitter users say [Getty]

    Iranian cleric Ayatollah Tabrizian has written extensively on violet leaf oil, which he says has miraculous properties.
    A local cleric from the Iranian city of Qom has suggested a novel cure for the new coronavirus – the pre-bedtime rectal administration of violet leaf oil.

    Users on Twitter describe how the Ayatollah Tabrizian has publicly denounced Western medicine as “un-Islamic”.

    In a post to over 120,000 followers on the social messaging service Telegram, Tabrizian, a purveyor of traditional Islam medicine, listed several alternative techniques for fighting the spread of the contagious disease, known as Covid-19.

    According to an Iranian news site, which obtained a screenshot of the message, Tabrizian recommends consuming copious amounts of brown sugar, burning wild rue, as well as inhaling snuff.

    His eighth tip is the most striking: “Before bedtime, drench some cotton in violet oil and apply onto your anus” …
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/2/25/applying-essential-oil-to-anus-cures-coronavirus-iranian-cleric

    Burning Medical Book By Advocate of ‘Islamic Medicine” Causes Outrage In Iran
    …The cleric named Abbas Tabrizian whose followers use the title of Ayatollah to refer to him advocates treating patients on the basis of Islamic medical tradition, particularly the many sayings of the Prophet and Shiite Imams preserved in books about them since the early Islamic times.
    The son of Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi who was once named as a possible successor to the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader, recently said his father died because he trusted Islamic medicine and the so-called Islamic physicians.
    Ala Hashemi Shahroudi had said, “The so-called Islamic doctors had convinced my father to ignore what modern physicians said about his illness and how to treat it.”
    Tabrizian who lives in Qom, the city of seminaries and the religious capital of Iran, has written several books on the so-called “Islamic Medicine” and runs a Islamic Medicine Center. Herbal and natural medicine, as well as other products such as “Islamic toothbrush”, “Islamic soap”, Sormeh (eyeliner made from natural products), and even “Islamic ink” in various colors, are on offer for sale on the website of the Islamic Medicine Center…
    https://en.radiofarda.com/a/burning-medical-book-by-advocate-of-islamic-medicine-causes-outrage-in-iran/30396427.html

    BLITZ@BLITZ__11
    I want the world to see this.. this mullah is burning a medical book to show ppl that that is a bullshit !!! these are WHAT THINGS which are ruling Iran. we Iranian ppl want the ppl of the world to help us get rid of these retarded monkeis…#طب_اسلامی #هاريسون https://twitter.com/ManotoNews/status/1220695136662777856 …

    وتو✔@ManotoNews
    عباس تبریزیان، روحانی معروف به پدر #طب_اسلامی کتاب پزشکی داخلی #هاریسون، یکی از معتبرترین کتب علم پزشکی معاصر دنیا را در بین شاگردان خود آتش زد
    *نظر شما در مورد این اقدام چیست؟
    11:30 AM – Jan 24, 2020

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