[LilFarmer]

IRAN

Coronavirus: Five Iranian IRGC members dead

Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya EnglishWednesday, 11 March 2020

Five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have died from coronavirus, IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said on Wednesday.

The five IRGC members and a number of Basij members have been “martyred” in the “fight against coronavirus,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency cited Sharif as saying. The Basij is a paramilitary arm of the IRGC.

Over 100,000 members of the IRGC and the Basij have been deployed to help contain the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, said Sharif.

At least 13 Iranian regime figures have died from coronavirus and 11 others were infected since the beginning of the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/03/11/Coronavirus-Five-Iranian-IRGC-members-dead.html

[Vermont Lt]

I understand that all life is sacred.

But for some reason, being “martyred from the [virus]” seems almost OK for people who wish to see me dead.

[Mariner]

Basij are not old and frail.

[MplsSteve]

“The five IRGC members and a number of Basij members have been “martyred” in the “fight against coronavirus,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency cited Sharif as saying. The Basij is a paramilitary arm of the IRGC.”

If there’s a good thing to be found here, this may be it.

[metmom]

There’s a bright side to this after all.