How Iran's Regime Spread Coronavirus to the Middle East :: Middle East Forum

How Iran's Regime Spread Coronavirus to the Middle East :: Middle East Forum
"On Monday, Iranian official Ahmad Amirabadi said there have been up to 50 deaths in Iran from coronavirus. 
The regime did what it knows how to do best: It sought to silence him and condemn him for spreading the news, claiming that only 12 had died from the virus and that there were only 61 cases in the country.

However, for five days Iran has known that there were likely more cases concentrated in the holy city of Qom, where religious pilgrims gather.

Iranians have been largely left in the dark since last Wednesday, when two deaths were announced in the Islamic Republic from coronavirus. The regime wanted elections to go well on February 21, so it sought to prevent any news of the virus for days.

Iranians have been largely left in the dark about the local spread of the virus.

By Saturday it was too late, and the country moved to shut down schools and universities. 
But Iranians and other pilgrims who came to Qom and became sick with the virus were already on the move.

They flew back to Iraq's Najaf and via Dubai to Bahrain, as well as arriving in Kuwait and Oman. Iran did not inform its neighbors until it was too late. 
Last Friday, Turkish government officials were already warning that there might be 750 cases in Iran..."
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