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\u201cMedia in Iran are daring to question its official coronavirus death and infection counts, showing how the outbreak is challenging even the most authoritarian states,\u201d<\/a> Bill Bostock, Business Insider US, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

The threats, criminal investigation, intimidation of relatives, death threats, defamation, and the freezing of assets continue for reporters in and of Iran.\u00a0 \u201cUN experts demand Iran ceases harassing BBC Persian staff,\u201d<\/a> BBC, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

Former Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad has written to the WHO suggesting that the worldwide coronavirus outbreak was caused by unidentified laboratories who spread the epidemic as part of a biological war.\u00a0 Crazy Mahmoud!\u00a0 \u201cFormer Iranian President Spreads Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory, Calls On World Health Organization to Identify \u2018Perpetrators\u2019 of \u2018Biological War\u2019,\u201d<\/a> David Brennan, Newsweek, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cIran has now recorded around 9,000 coronavirus cases in the country, nearly a thousand more cases in one day, Kianush Jahanpur, a health ministry spokesman, said on Wednesday.\u00a0 The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has reached 354, a rise of 63 in the past 24 hours, Jahanpur told state TV.\u00a0 Wednesday’s tally is the highest single-day toll since the start of the outbreak in February. \u00a0Jahanpur added that 2,959 patients have fully recovered, and called on Iranians to avoid unnecessary trips and stay at home.\u00a0 Iran is now the worst infected country in the Middle East and the third worldwide, following China and Italy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCoronavirus: Iran records jump of 1,000 new cases as 63 die in 24 hours,\u201d<\/a> Middle East Eye, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cStrategic Partnership With China Lies at Root of Iran\u2019s Coronavirus Outbreak,\u201d<\/a> Benoit Faucon, Sune Engel Rasmussen and Jeremy Page, Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran closes museums, cultural centers during new year holidays,\u201d<\/a> Xinhua, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s trade minister recovers from coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Ahmet Dursun, AA, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran agrees to send black boxes of downed airliner to Ukraine: official,\u201d<\/a> Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren, Reuters, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Says Virus Kills 63 More, Death Toll Climbs to 354,\u201d<\/a> AP, VOA, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cU.S. and coalition troops killed in rocket attack in Iraq, potentially spiking tensions with Iran,\u201d<\/a> Dan Lamothe and Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cHezbollah officials test positive for coronavirus after meeting with Iran military,\u201d<\/a> Cleveland Jewish News,\u00a0March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

So, Iran refuses to quarantine areas and provinces.\u00a0 Coronavirus will continue to spread like wildfire.\u00a0 Why won\u2019t they do what China did?\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s top security body rejects lockdown of epidemic areas,\u201d<\/a> Al-Monitor, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix-Year Prison Sentence For Iran Activist Who Called On Khamenei To Resign,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

It is my understanding that this \u201cdiscovery\u201d is hogwash, another untruth.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s new drug able to relieve some of coronavirus\u2019 severe symptoms, official says,\u201d<\/a> Trend News Agency, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first Friday without wishing for the death of other nations,\u2019\u2019 went one joke, shared on social media in Iran after Friday prayers were canceled on March 6.\u00a0 No “Death to America” or “Death to Saudi Arabia” or “Death to Iraq” or “Death to Israel” or “Death to England” or “Death to Canada” or (you get the idea, they’ve used many countries over the years at the Friday Prayer meeting in Tehran, Mashhad, etc.).\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cCoronavirus Ravages Iran All the Way to the Top,\u201d<\/a> Arsalan Shahla, Golnar Moteralli, Marc Champion, Bloomberg, March 10, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMedia in Iran are daring to question its official coronavirus death and infection counts, showing how the outbreak is challenging even the most authoritarian states,\u201d Bill Bostock, Business Insider US, March 11, 2020. The threats, criminal investigation, intimidation of relatives, death threats, defamation, and the freezing of assets continue for reporters in and of Iran.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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