Before believing that to be true, would want independent confirmatory testing that it was actually COVID 19 that infected and killed those people. Does Iran have the capability to perform an accurate diagnostic test?
Do you think they are witch doctors? While I am no fan of their government, the have always had a very good healthcare system.
Iran has the capability to fabricate total propaganda and blame the virus on U.S. and Israel.
” Does Iran have the capability to perform an accurate diagnostic test?”
It certainly does.
They have a Pasteur Institute in Tehran
http://www.pasteur.ac.ir/