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Coronavirus Could Kill 3.5 million In Iran


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2020 Apr 2, 3:34am   952 views  15 comments

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Iran has become an epicenter of the novel coronavirus. Infection rates, death rates and the number of senior officials who have contracted the illness are high and probably underreported.

Politics might have played a part in the spread, the New Yorker wrote. The outbreak occurred as leaders wanted citizens to celebrate the anniversary of Iran’s revolution on Feb. 11 and vote in the parliamentary elections 10 days later. They even went so far as to prevent doctors and nurses from wearing face masks and taking other protective measures to avoid causing panic, the Washington Post added.

A combination of “cynicism and ideology” kept Iran from acting sooner, Foreign Policy magazine reported. Officials allowed Chinese flights into the country, for example, as other countries blocked them. They likely permitted those flights in part because Iran is dependent on Chinese investment and assistance amid American economic sanctions.

But China can’t help Iran now from the economic consequences of the virus, which might also be worse for Iran than elsewhere because of the mullahs’ inaction. The Iranian economy had already contracted by 9 percent last year due to the sanctions. Recently, Afghanistan, Iraq and Turkey have closed their borders with Iran, squelching growth even more. Chinese flights stopped Feb. 23.

The pandemic might be the “black swan” event that topples Iran’s conservative mullahs from power, wrote the right-leaning American magazine National Review. In addition to the worsening economic woes, Iran’s ruling class are aging and infirm, a demographic especially vulnerable to the virus. Most importantly, Iran’s leaders appear incompetent and out of touch.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, for example, recently called off a major speech traditionally delivered on Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. The Atlantic magazine wrote how many Iranians asked why Khamenei couldn’t have delivered his speech on television, raising questions about whether the man who succeeded Ayatollah Khomeini either had the virus or had holed up in order to protect himself as his people suffered.

Meanwhile, the American drone strike that killed the military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iran’s slow response to accidentally shooting down a civilian airliner in January had already undermined a lot of popular support for politicians in Tehran.

And when Khamenei has made public statements, he has repeated conspiracy theories alleging that the US created the coronavirus, using Iranian genetic material to tailor it to target Iranians specifically, reported Al Jazeera.

At the same time, researchers at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology have estimated that as many as 3.5 million Iranians could die of the virus, wrote Deutsche Welle.

What to do? The US recently offered help but was rebuffed. That’s even though many believe the US still shouldn’t lift sanctions, such as argued here in this Bloomberg opinion piece.

However, standing by as millions of ordinary Iranians perish won’t lead to closer bonds if the regime falls.

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3   Shaman   2020 Apr 2, 6:54am  

So we can win the war without firing a shot? Sounds like good news!
4   CBOEtrader   2020 Apr 2, 6:59am  

Theres far too many could, might, maybe's in this article.

No identifiable facts.

Reads like a an uninteresting version of an alex jones video.
5   Patrick   2020 Apr 2, 8:29am  

ohomen171 says
Coronavirus Could Kill 3.5 million In Iran


Pure fear-mongering, disconnected from reality, assuming these stats are even close to correct:

6   zzyzzx   2020 Apr 2, 8:30am  

Patrick says
ohomen171 says
Coronavirus Could Kill 3.5 million In Iran


Pure fear-mongering, disconnected from reality, assuming these stats are even close to correct:



Or it will take roughly 64 years at the rate of 150 per day.
7   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 Apr 2, 8:40am  

3.5 million dissidents. Remember the mass celebrations when we killed General Salami?

China has also killed millions of dissidents in Hong Kong and Mainland China, don't hear a word about those deaths. Now China is low balling their numbers.
8   WookieMan   2020 Apr 2, 10:05pm  

Patrick says
assuming these stats are even close to correct:

They're not. I'm not sure I'd trust any stats with this virus at this point. Even from our own country.

Every video from my area is overly dramatized. I have 4-6 nurse friends on one big group text currently. They say they're nervous and worried that this is the calm before the storm, but so far it's calm. This is coming from nurses working in Aurora and Naperville here in IL. 2 of the top 4 largest cities. Aurora's mayor and police chief have CV-19. She (police chief) was at my Dad's funeral last year, nice lady. Might become Chicago's PD chief. In the top 3 for the job, though not sure why she'd want it.
9   Patrick   2024 Jan 29, 10:32am  

Lo and behold, it was all bullshit and very few people actually died from the virus Fauci created in Wuhan.

It was just fearmongering to get as many people as possible to submit to the very dangerous and utterly ineffective injection of God knows what.
10   RWSGFY   2024 Jan 29, 10:40am  

Yep, it didn't happen.
11   KgK one   2024 Jan 29, 11:35am  

Here my conspiracy theory: us released mild corona virus as bio warfare to see how china handles it , they did fantastic n better than US. So they didn't go thru with other viruses.

Since US can't beat China easily , spreading diseases easier option. Us has better n more weapons but less troops. China is catching up with weapons. Now us will do proxy wars n use us troops to nuteralize china.
12   Eric Holder   2024 Jan 29, 4:08pm  

KgK one says

bio warfare to see how china handles it , they did fantastic n better than US


Did they really "do fantastic"? More deaths, more draconian lockdowns, more negative impact to economy....
13   richwicks   2024 Jan 29, 4:10pm  

Eric Holder says

KgK one says


bio warfare to see how china handles it , they did fantastic n better than US


Did they really "do fantastic"? More deaths, more draconian lockdowns, more negative impact to economy....


The question may be how well was it contained and organized, in a simulated event.

I don't think a respiratory virus can be that deadly, at least today. It would wipe out who it is going to wipe out and there would be huge evolutionary pressure to not be deadly.
14   GNL   2024 Jan 29, 4:13pm  

Neutralize China? LOL
15   NuttBoxer   2024 Jan 29, 5:57pm  

Man, this post has NOT aged well.

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