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\u201cKhamenei Calls Coronavirus ‘Possible Biological Attack’, Asks Guards To Contain It,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, March 13, 2020.<\/p>\n

Iran said Friday the security forces will clear the streets nationwide within 24 hours so all citizens can be checked for coronavirus.\u00a0 Major General Mohammad Bagheri said, “During the next 10 days, the entire Iranian nation will be monitored once through cyberspace, by phone and, if necessary, in person, and those suspected of being ill will be fully identified.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how they will do this.\u00a0 Nor do many believe they actually will.\u00a0 See \u201cIran imposes lockdown to check all citizens for virus,\u201d<\/a> Ahmad Parhizi, AFP, March 13, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetter to WHO Over Iran\u2019s Concealment of Coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Pooya Stone, Iran in Focus, March 13, 2020.<\/p>\n

Despite other airlines in Iran being grounded, the Supreme Leader-led IRGC Mahan Air continues to fly to China and back, regardless of Pres. Rouhani government orders for all airlines to cease.\u00a0 So, IRGC wins over coronavirus.\u00a0 See \u201cWhat Spurs Iran’s Mahan Air To Continue Flights To China Despite Public Outrage?,\u201d<\/a> Maryam Sinaiee, Radio Farda, March 13, 2020.<\/p>\n

Rate of death and contraction is about 3 times higher in Iran than the Regime reports.\u00a0 Fine reporting by the WPost.\u00a0 See the article, \u201cThe Coronavirus burial pits so vast they\u2019re visible from space,\u201d<\/a> Erin Cunningham and Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, March 12, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Now that this story is out, a day old, you realize what the NRO has been watching for weeks.<\/p>\n

A number of outlets are airing this story–these citizens thought or were told that drinking this moonshine would block coronavirus.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran: 73 people died after consuming toxic alcohol,\u201d<\/a> Ahmet Dursun, AA, March 12, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cCBC News: Iran’s COVID-19 crisis delaying planned transfer of Flight 752’s black boxes to Europe,\u201d<\/a> Unian, March 13, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon said Friday it would keep two aircraft carrier task forces in the Gulf region after carrying out strikes in Iraq on five depots for Iran-supplied rockets.\u00a0 Early Friday the U.S. military launched air strikes against weapons depots of Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iraqi armed faction backed by Iran.\u00a0 The strikes, by manned aircraft, were in retaliation for a Wednesday rocket attack attributed to Kataeb Hezbollah that killed two American soldiers and a British soldier at Iraq’s Taji air base.\u00a0 The deployment of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Harry S. Truman marked the first time since 2012 that the Pentagon had authorized keeping aircraft carriers in the Gulf.\u00a0\u00a0McKenzie said Tehran had not pulled back its regional military operations since the U.S. killing in January of Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian general who directed operations against U.S. forces and managed Tehran’s proxies.\u00a0 He added however that its ability to direct groups like Kataeb Hezbollah had been diminished by the loss of Soleimani and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Iranian leadership.\u00a0 “It’s harder for them to make effective decisions… Someone has replaced him. I don’t think that someone is going to be as good as him in the short term. We’ll see how it works out in the long term,” McKenzie said.\u00a0 The U.S. does not believe Iran wants a direct conflict, preferring instead to continue to act through proxies to harass American forces and promote its own ideology in the region.\u00a0 See \u201cUS Keeping Two Carriers in Gulf to Deter Iran Proxy Attacks,\u201d<\/a> Sylvie Lanteaume, AFP, March 13, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0See also, \u201cCoronavirus Tension Makes Iran More Dangerous, U.S. General Says,\u201d<\/a> Glen Carey, Bloomberg, March 12, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Prepares for Political Upheaval Amid a Coronavirus Scare,\u201d<\/a> Jason Brodsky, National Interest, March 13, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0An interesting story about the illogical use of a non-physician health minister, and the Supreme Leader\u2019s duplicate health network watching and criticizing the already embattled government led by Pres. Rouhani.\u00a0 The Leader stays above it all, willing to take credit but no blame.<\/p>\n

\u201cIraq base attack: US in retaliatory strikes on Iran-backed fighters,\u201d<\/a> BBC, March 13, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cKhamenei Calls Coronavirus ‘Possible Biological Attack’, Asks Guards To Contain It,\u201d Radio Farda, March 13, 2020. Iran said Friday the security forces will clear the streets nationwide within 24 hours so all citizens can be checked for coronavirus.\u00a0 Major General Mohammad Bagheri said, “During the next 10 days, the entire Iranian nation will be monitored … <\/p>\n

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