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The news is really big, and I\u2019ll just quote it.\u00a0 \u201cThe IranWire news site reported on Wednesday that Iran\u2019s first vice president Eshaq Jahangiri has tested positive for coronavirus and is undergoing treatment.\u00a0 IranWire cited an \u201cinformed source\u201d. There was no immediate confirmation from Iranian officials.\u00a0 Several Iranian officials have been infected with the coronavirus and one senior official died from a coronavirus infection on Monday.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran’s first vice president has coronavirus, IranWire reports; no official confirmation,\u201d<\/a> Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran sets up checkpoints between cities; closes schools and universities,\u201d<\/a> Holly Ellyatt and Saheli Roy Choudhury, CNBC, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

This story is a reminder that if your loved one was killed on the Ukrainian airliner shoot-down, you\u2019re out of luck.\u00a0 Iran isn\u2019t going to help you one bit.\u00a0 And if you complain and ask for compensation or that the military be held responsible, you are putting your life and your family\u2019s life at risk.\u00a0 \u201cHusband of Iran plane crash victim warns of intelligence agency’s actions,\u201d<\/a> Hannah Hepner, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cLawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison,\u201d<\/a> Amir Vahdat, AP, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran rallies religious leaders to expel US forces from Iraq,\u201d<\/a> Hamdi Malik, Al Monitor, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThreatened by Iranian regime, family of Flight 752 victim flees to Edmonton,\u201d<\/a> Stewart Bell, Global News, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran says 92 dead amid 2,922 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the Islamic Republic,\u201d<\/a> Washington Times, AP, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cUN nuclear watchdog finds Iran has nearly tripled its uranium stockpile,\u201d<\/a> Nicole Gaouette, CNN, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoronavirus has spread to nearly all Iran provinces \u2013 Rouhani,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

This looks like another announcement without legs, like many of the new jet fighters and drones and missiles that do not work (there are obviously some that do, but Iran seems to \u201clead the world\u201d in deception regarding new weapons systems).\u00a0 The proof is yet to be seen of Iran making a vaccine for coronavirus, and of course spent a couple of months denying it was even a problem in Iran.\u00a0 See \u201cIran\u2019s IRGC claims it’s close to producing coronavirus vaccine,\u201d<\/a> Al-Monitor, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran still won\u2019t give up the black boxes.\u00a0 \u201cCanada urges Iran to give access to downed airliner\u2019s black boxes,\u201d<\/a> AFP,\u00a0Arab News, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIraqi Militias Split Over New Iran-Backed Head, Reflecting Wider Divisions,\u201d<\/a> Crispin Smith, Just Security, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

And I thought the virus started from a wet market in China.\u00a0 \u201cVirus is biological attack on China and Iran, Iranian civil defense chief claims,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, AFP, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

This is the way to ignore international agreements and keep your nuclear program humming along, free from oversight by the IAEA, which you have agreed to come inspect you.\u00a0 Here is the story in quotes, \u201cTehran has no obligation to grant the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog access to sites in Iran when it deems the requests are based on \u201cfabricated information\u201d, Iran\u2019s UN ambassador in Vienna said on Wednesday. \u201cIntelligence services\u2019 fabricated information… creates no obligation for Iran to consider such requests,\u201d said a statement from Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Kazem Gharib Abadi.\u00a0 It comes a day after a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reprimanded Iran for refusing access to two sites which diplomats believe could be connected to the country\u2019s historic nuclear activity.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran says \u2018no obligation\u2019 to let International Atomic Energy Agency into certain sites,\u201d<\/a> Economic Times, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s coronavirus response: Pride, paranoia, secrecy, chaos,\u201d<\/a> Farnaz Fassihi and David Kirkpatrick, New York Times, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

So I saw this story originally on Daily Beast and other less reliable outlets.\u00a0 Now that it is on CNN and WSJ and has been looked at through other more traditional sources I can post it on my blog.\u00a0 \u201cIran to temporarily free 54,000 prisoners as coronavirus spreads,\u201d<\/a> Mohammed Tawfeeq and Angela Dewan, CNN, March 4, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0And here is another \u201cIran Releases Prisoners on a Temporary Basis to Halt the Spread of the Coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Aresu Eqbali and Isabel Coles, Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2020.<\/p>\n

The killing of Soleimani continues to pay dividends for the future of region.\u00a0 \u201cIran running out of options in Syria,\u201d<\/a> Baha al-Awam, The Arab Weekly, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Suicide Prevention Committees\u2019 To Form In Iranian Universities,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cExclusive: U.N. nuclear watchdog plans alert on Iranian stonewalling \u2013 diplomats,\u201d<\/a> Francois Murphy, John Irish, Reuters, March 2, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news is really big, and I\u2019ll just quote it.\u00a0 \u201cThe IranWire news site reported on Wednesday that Iran\u2019s first vice president Eshaq Jahangiri has tested positive for coronavirus and is undergoing treatment.\u00a0 IranWire cited an \u201cinformed source\u201d. There was no immediate confirmation from Iranian officials.\u00a0 Several Iranian officials have been infected with the coronavirus … <\/p>\n

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