by Seth Frantzman

February 25, 2020

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.


.....Iranians have been largely left in the dark.....two deaths were announced in the Islamic Republic from coronavirus.






.....Iran has now set the Middle East ablaze with fears of coronavirus.

The virus was mostly limited to China until two weeks ago.

Then it moved rapidly to Italy and South Korea, where there are thought to be hundreds and 1,000 cases, respectively.

But the regime in Tehran purposely hid the numbers of sick.


.....Iran has not done what China or Italy or other places have done.

It has not been transparent and did not even quarantine the cases in Qom or elsewhere.

Instead, Iran has acted like an incubator.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke with an Austrian delegation on Sunday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif smiled and laughed with the Austrians.

The virus was a big joke for the president and minister.

Zarif later joked that he did not have the virus.

Rouhani claimed the virus was like US sanctions: It seemed worse than it was.

Not far from where the men were laughing, Mojtaba Rahmanzadeh, mayor of district 13 in Tehran, was sick and hospitalized for coronavirus....