Posted on 02/27/2020 7:37:55 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) On Thursday, Iranian media reported that the country’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, had tested positive for the coronavirus, and The Washington Post suggested “infections appear to be rapidly spreading among the Iranian political elite.”
In addition, the head of the national security and policy committee of the Iranian parliament, Mojtaba Zolnour, also announced on Thursday that he, too, had the virus. The 56 year old parliamentarian is from Qom, one of Shi’a Islam’s two holiest cities and the epicenter of the virus in Iran. Another parliamentarian from Qom, Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, announced earlier this week that he had the virus, as did a parliamentarian from Tehran, Mahmoud Sadeghi. The mayor of a district of Tehran, Morteza Rahmanzadeh, also has the disease.
The deaths of two prominent Iranians were also announced on Thursday: Hadi Khosrowshahi, a senior cleric and former Iranian ambassador to the Vatican, as well as Elham Sheikhi, a professional athlete and member of the Iranian women’s futsal team (futsal is a form of soccer, played indoors.)
Khosrowshahi was 81 years old. Most of the 2,800 coronavirus deaths world-wide have been among older individuals. However, Sheikhi, who lives in Qom, was only 23.
Thursday’s announcements follow Tuesday’s news that Iran’s Deputy Health Minister, Iraj Harirchi, also had the disease. Just the day before, he gave a press conference, claiming that Iran had the coronavirus under control.
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How soon before the Ayatollah gets it?
Who knew there would be an upside to this illness?
Or they are going for public sympathy to avoid getting lynched by angry mobs.
I believe they may afford the health care needed unlike regular folks.
Who got it from the Chinese building their nuclear weapons
so sad that Screaming Mary has it
https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/irans-screaming-mary-vp-from-1979-us-hostage-crisis-has-coronavirus/
Aren’t these the folks who wipe their asses with one hand and eat their hummus with the other? Seem like a real sanitary lot.
“Or they are going for public sympathy to avoid getting lynched by angry mobs.”
That is what I heard, they are not sick. It is just propaganda because so many people sick.
Sweet! Let’s hope it kills them all.
These Iranian despots getting covid19 is in a word WEIRD. So weird that a conspiracy nut might believe that it may have been deliberate. You don’t see high level officials in ROK, Japan, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore testing positive. OR given the apocalyptic nature of the mullahs maybe this is the beginning of an effort on Iran’s part to create end times with the leadership showing the way.
But they have a surefire cure https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/2/25/applying-essential-oil-to-anus-cures-coronavirus-iranian-cleric
Same Chinese weapons (WMD) experts.
It’s a shame it’s just the flu, eh? /s
Spreading among Iran’s elite? As Dirty Harry would say.....”well I’m all broken up”
“Its all spread from the same goat.”
Maybe the virus got into the little boy wing of the orphanage in the Capital City...
Was it the virus or poison? Eliminating ones rivals during panic over a virus appears to be an opportunity that somebody in Iran is taking advantage of. Hopefully the new regime that emerges is more friendly than the current one.
Only after someone from Iran shook hands with the Pope.
From your link:
“Masoumeh Ebtekar, an Iranian vice president who is better known as the infamous “Screaming Mary” during the 1979 US hostage crisis, has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to reports.
Ebtekar, the vice president for women and family affairs, was sitting near President Hassan Rouhani during a cabinet meeting Wednesday”...
...I wonder how the cancer-riddled 80 year old “Supreme Leader” will handle it?
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