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One More Iranian Official Dies of COVID-19
IFP News ^ | Mar 2, 2020 | IFP Editorial Staff -

Posted on 03/02/2020 2:36:59 AM PST by 11th_VA

The senior official passed away on Monday morning at Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran, where a large number of Tehrani citizens suffering from the disease are hospitalized.

Born in 1948 in Qom, Mr. Mohammadi was a member of the sixth and seventh Iranian parliaments.

He had been appointed by Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei as a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since August 2017.

He was also a nephew of senior cleric Ayatollah Shobeiri Zanjani, and his mother – the cleric’s sister – had earlier died of the same disease.

Before Mirmohammadi, Iran’s former ambassador to Vatican, Hadi Khosroshahi, had died of COVID-19.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19
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1 posted on 03/02/2020 2:36:59 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Or this just could be a way of settling some scores then blaming the deaths on COVID19.


2 posted on 03/02/2020 2:38:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Now I’m wondering if our CIA and the Israelis are behind this thing. Trump closes down our borders in two seconds. Quaranteens people asap. Unprecedented


3 posted on 03/02/2020 3:09:42 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 11th_VA

allah’s will!!


4 posted on 03/02/2020 3:25:49 AM PST by utax
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To: 11th_VA

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5 posted on 03/02/2020 3:30:42 AM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: mewzilla

That’s very posible. On the other hand, I read that one of their “cures” is having their favorite mullah spit in their water bottles. Oh, and if that doesn’t work, there’s always burning donkey dung and breathing the smoke...


6 posted on 03/02/2020 3:35:18 AM PST by livius
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To: nikos1121

Doesn’t really fit the MO of the CIA or Mossad. Germ warfare is too hard to focus. The inordinate number of senior officials in Iran getting sick might indicate a working relationship with the ChiComms. Or a convenient tool to filter out the hard-liners.


7 posted on 03/02/2020 3:36:21 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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: Iran reports 523 new cases of coronavirus and 11 new deaths, raising total to 1,501 cases and 66 dead


8 posted on 03/02/2020 3:46:12 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: 11th_VA; Liz
Those sick include Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar, better known as “Sister Mary,” the English-speaking spokeswoman for the students who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and sparked the 444-day hostage crisis, state media reported.

Don't remember seeing her back in the day.

9 posted on 03/02/2020 3:48:32 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: livius

I doubt the upper echelon limits itself to traditional medicine. That’s for the great unwashed.

FWIW, I believe anything coming from the mullahs about as much as I do coming from the ChiComs. That is to say...not at all.

Trust but verify.


10 posted on 03/02/2020 3:57:22 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: EandH Dad

Yes, I agree with you....but Trump knew something very quickly from our intelligence...and acted to close the borders, quarantine etc. Unprecedented, and he did it showing us that’s he’s the leader all the rest of them are not.... Truly amazing.


11 posted on 03/02/2020 4:19:48 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

There was sufficient information on January 1 to make the decisions that Trump made.

On January 1, we knew:

COVID-19 was deadly
COVID-19 was highly transmissible
COVID-19 could be transmitted by people before they become symptomatic
COVID-19 had infected thousands of people, and quarantine in China had failed.

Given this information, Trump reacted quickly and appropriately. It is unprecedented because he did not wait for harm to come to the US, so he took a considerable political risk. The safe thing to do is to wait until people in the US start dying and then put forward a response to a scared population.

Trump decided to implement an appropriate policy without waiting for people to get scared. In doing so, he intervened when intervention may have actually been helpful. But it is so far outside the normal lead-from-behind US political style, that people have a hard time recognizing good public health policy when they see it.


12 posted on 03/02/2020 4:41:51 AM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: 11th_VA

They don’t call it a death cult for nothing.


13 posted on 03/02/2020 5:15:38 AM PST by RubinBoomer (Please be nice. I am new here. I'm open to doing things the FR way, just need to know.)
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To: 11th_VA

Just a cold


14 posted on 03/02/2020 5:34:20 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: 11th_VA

What is the “Expediency Discernment Council”?


15 posted on 03/02/2020 5:37:25 AM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: 11th_VA

What is the “Expediency Discernment Council”?


16 posted on 03/02/2020 5:37:58 AM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: livius

That’s very posible. On the other hand, I read that one of their “cures” is having their favorite mullah spit in their water bottles. Oh, and if that doesn’t work, there’s always burning donkey dung and breathing the smoke...................... I wonder what the cure for STDs is, never mind, lets not go there.


17 posted on 03/02/2020 5:41:15 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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To: 11th_VA

Yea....You guys keep hugging and kissing.


18 posted on 03/02/2020 5:42:48 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: nikos1121

oh please....


19 posted on 03/02/2020 5:43:16 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Haiku Guy

I think we both agree that Trump once again showed amzing intuition and leadership with his decision.

Bush, Clinton Obama etc...would have sat on their hands.

I think the last president who would have acted the same way would have been Eisenhower.


20 posted on 03/02/2020 5:44:58 AM PST by nikos1121
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