Iran has been ravaged by coronavirus, but remains unwaveringly committed to business as usual:
1. Propaganda against the “Great Satan” and “Little Satan,” blaming the US and Israel for supposedly infecting Iranians deliberately; ‘
2. Rigidity in the practice of Islam, ignoring calls for social distancing; and
3. Maintaining its jihadist ambitions at all costs, even diverting funds from domestic priorities to its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The latest:
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hosted a funeral attracting thousands for Hossein Assadollahi, a senior terrorist leader and veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, on Monday…. The funeral flooded the streets of Vardavard, near Tehran, and featured a procession largely composed of IRGC terrorists and civilians likely forced out of their homes to participate
Despite Iran’s recklessness and obvious priorities, there have been calls from China, Pakistan, and Russia, among others, including Leftists in America itself, for the easing of U.S. sanctions. These calls are based on the claim that easing the sanctions would benefit Iran’s people; yet money flowing into Iran would not reach the most needy people, but would be diverted to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s jihad terror proxies in the region.
“Thousands to Attend Terrorist Funeral in Coronavirus-Ravaged Iran,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, March 24,2020:
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hosted a funeral attracting thousands for Hossein Assadollahi, a senior terrorist leader and veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, on Monday.
Photos and video of the ceremony – which attracted notably minimal attention in Iranian state media outlets like PressTV, the Fars News Agency, and others – show mourners tightly packed in public spaces, a prime location to infect a large number of people with a contagious disease. As the world faces a pandemic caused by the Chinese coronavirus originating in central Wuhan, public health experts have universally agreed that “social distancing” – avoiding contact with individuals as much as possible and abstaining from organizing into large groups – is necessary to slow the rate of infection of the coronavirus so as to not overwhelm the world’s healthcare systems.
Iran’s healthcare system has, by all measures, been overwhelmed for months. While Iran claims only 24,811 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country and nearly 2,000 deaths, reports citing whistleblowers and dissidents in the country have published evidence suggesting the death toll is much higher. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the largest Iranian dissident group, announced on Tuesday that it had documented over 10,500 deaths at the hands of the virus in Iran, citing sources within the country.
The NCRI also noted an increase in the number of arrests of people for “spreading rumors” about the true extent of the outbreak.
The Iranian regime has largely responded to the outbreak by empowering the IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist group and not a medical organization, to lead the nation’s coronavirus response. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed the Chinese virus is a biological weapon, implying the United States deliberately spread it in Iran. This weekend, Khamenei rejected a U.S. offer of humanitarian aid, partially on the grounds that he claimed America could use the aid to spread more “poison” in the country.
Assadollahi reportedly died last Friday; the Iranian regime announced his death was a result of “a long battle with health complaints caused by chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980s,” according to the Kurdish outlet Rudaw. Rudaw notes that, while the death notice did not mention the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, exposure to chemical weapons debilitates the lungs and those with preexisting health conditions are far more vulnerable to serious illness and death if infected.
The funeral flooded the streets of Vardavard, near Tehran, and featured a procession largely composed of IRGC terrorists and civilians likely forced out of their homes to participate. It appeared in photos similar in tone to the recent funeral of IRGC Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani, eliminated from the battlefield by a U.S. airstrike in January. Iranian officials noted that Soleimani and Assadollahi were comrades in arms.
The procession, bringing together thousands of people at a time in which health experts are urging all to stay home, prompted a resigned comment on Twitter from Kianush Jahanpur, a spokesman for the nation’s Health Ministry.
Buraq says
The irony doesn’t get better than this, does it. Iranian terrorists contracting a killer disease ……. at a funeral! Covidiots!
mortimer says
The most fanatical supremacists in Iran will infect each other. Ten percent of them who develop symptoms will die of the illness. They will infect many others.
Eventually, Iran will have at least a million deaths from coronavirus, because they are not taking it seriously. When several of the top Islamist leaders die of the illness, the time will be ripe for counter-revolution.
mortimer says
An underground network monitoring health in Iran has deduced that the infection and death tolls in Iran are possibly six times higher than reported.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51673053
Iran’s reported mortality rate for coronavirus is higher than in other countries … it is 16%, whereas in other countries it is around 10% or less.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“Iran’s reported mortality rate for coronavirus is higher than in other countries … it is 16%, whereas in other countries it is around 10% or less.”
That sounds about right for Iran. Literally no effective hospital level of care.
In countries with top-notch hospital level of care including ICU beds, like the United States, the mortality rate drops down to about 1%, according to the latest data.
RonaldB says
Actually, seeing thousands of terror supporters crowd together for an extended period in corona-infested Iran makes me feel that things are starting to go right.
On the other hand, on the subject of sanctions, somehow sanctions always wind up starving civilians and in particular infants and children, while allowing the country doing the sanctions, in this case the US, to get away with killing hundreds of thousands with no publicity. The same thing happened when food and medicine was sanctioned in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
b.a. freeman says
of course, RonaldB! the exact intention of the sanctions imposed by the u.s. is to starve women, children, and old people, leaving the leaders unharmed and free to continue to spreading chaos and death around the middle east. how observant of U! perhaps we should just send them a few hundred billion dollars in cash, so that they can spend it on (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) health care for their captive citizens … because, dontcha know, they used to do that *before* the sanctions, and also when mr. obama lifted sanctions and infused them with cash.
RonaldB says
I hope you won’t mind my suggestion that you not quit your day job in favor of satire writing.
I have no objection to keeping materials out of Iran’s hands that allow it to make nuclear devices or military weapons.
I do object to measures designed to crush the Iranian economy, independent of military production. The rationale is always, by making the people suffer, they will put pressure on their leaders to agree to our demands. Generally, this type of embargo is predicated on the suffering of ordinary people. It has the benefit that when people are starving, it doesn’t present a dramatic enough picture for new stories, unless the suffering is directly related to putting pressure on Western countries to admit hostile refugees.
If anyone has any more facts on this situation, I’d be happy to hear.
gravenimage says
Yes–the idea that the US is killing hundreds of thousands of women, children, and old people because we aren’t forking over billions of dollars to the Mullahs is just calumny.
RonaldB says
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill-children-un-reports.html
gravenimage says
That the NYT loves Saddam Hussein pushing the idea that America is out murdering Muslim children does not make is so.
RonaldB says
So, the appropriate model for understanding reality is, believe the sources that tell you what you think you know, and don’t believe the sources that tell you what you don’t want to know?
Boromir's Horn says
You can’t fix stupid, just let the herd thin itself out.
FYI says
An islamic jihadist’s funeral:all dressed up and nowhere nice to go{although they think paradise awaits them}
And to insult to injury{…and muslims won’t get this…}:judgement at the hands of …a JEW {Jesus Christ}
{Jews may argue that YHWH is the Judge:Christians believe the authority to Judge is given to Jesus Christ who is Jewish{John 4 v 22}.But either way you look at it,it is Jewish}
The same of course applies to nazis..
They persecute the Jews
They steal from the Jews
They hate the Jews
They kill the Jews
And then one day they die..only to be Judged by……a JEW.
Like muhammed:
muhammed cursed the Jews
{sahih muslim 1082}
muhammed stole from the Jews
{of Khaybar}
muhammed preached a false god al lah,not the True God YHWH of the Jews
{For which he died:see Deuteronomy 18:20}
muhammed murdered the Jews
{Abu Dawud 4390}
muhammed was murdered by an enslaved Jewish woman whose family were
murdered by him.
muhmamed dies from poisoned meat ..and who gets to judge him?
A Jew.
YHWH{..not “allah” the muslim god..}Will always have the last laugh….
muhamed:oh allah!Let me in to paradise.I killed many Jews for you!
YHWH “allah”?Wrong god….your “allah”:he is the god of sheol…
Wellington says
Allah will protect them. Uh, except that there is no Allah.
PRCS says
Re: Islam–work with the facts!
Leave the ‘ban ’em’ nonsense to Middle School students.
1. Democracy “rule by [the] people”) is a form of government in which the people exercise the authority of government. Some cornerstones of these issues are freedom of assembly and speech, inclusiveness and equality, membership, consent, voting, right to life and minority rights. The United States is governed, per representative democracy.
2. Theocracy is a form of government in which God or a deity of some type is recognized as the supreme ruling authority, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries that manage the day to day affairs of the government.
3. Theocracies are antithetical to and incompatible with democracy.
4. Islam is not merely a religion. It is a theocracy. Everyone and anyone claiming to be a Muslim is, by definition, a member of that theocracy. That includes Muslims in Dearborn, Minneapollis, The Bronx. Washington DC,….
5. In direct contradiction to its claim of democracy, Afghanistan’s governance is unequivocally theocratic, as its Constitution makes clear:
*The sacred religion of Islam is the religion of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan*
*No law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan.
6. The sharia is the embodiment of Islamic law (yes, despite the protestations of ‘unbelievers’–it is God’s law, to THEM).
7..Certain specific, written aspects of Islamic law are antithetical to and incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and U.S. law.
7. The foremost reasons Islam has no legitimate place here? In my opinion, as a theocracy, its punishment for apostasy is utterly incompatible with the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, Add to that its cruel and unusual ‘divine’ punishments, etc.
8. Without regard to their respective political or religious affiliation, our elected ‘leaders’–as a whole–need to explain to the public, and to Muslims in particular, that swearing to ‘support and defend’ our Constitution with one hand on a book which actually prevents them from doing so is an act of fraud.
Qur’an 9:29
Sahih International
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
James Lincoln says
PRCS says,
“… our elected ‘leaders’–as a whole–need to explain to the public, and to Muslims in particular, that swearing to ‘support and defend’ our Constitution with one hand on a book which actually prevents them from doing so is an act of fraud.”
Exactly!
Taking the oath of office with one hand on the Koran should NEGATE the oath…
PRCS says
Agree.
But an act which–to date–has been foolishly praised by those ‘leaders’.
gravenimage says
Is this Dan Roley again claiming that he and his buddies are enslaving Jihadists in Africa? Very odd stuff.
gravenimage says
Iran: Thousands attend funeral of senior jihad terror leader despite coronavirus
……………….
Morons.
Norman Gardner says
They say they love death more than life. Good riddance to them.
OLD GUY says
Boy there is going to be a big shortage of virgins in Muhammad land.