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\u201cIran’s Second Largest City At Risk Of Coronavirus Disaster,\u201d<\/a> Maryam Sinaiee, Radio Farda, March 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop Iranian general Shabani dies of Covid-19,\u201d<\/a> New Straits Times, March 14, 2020.\u00a0 Brig. Gen. Nasser Shabani had at one time been responsible for quelling internal dissent.<\/p>\n

April 8 is the big day, the day after which Iran\u2019s rate and numbers will decline, per the Regime\u2019s Minister of Health, Saeid Namak, who also said that June 20 is also a big day\u2014when the crisis will be over in Iran.\u00a0 Reminds me of \u201cLet it be written, let it be done.\u201d\u00a0 (Pharaoh Ramses, played by Yul Brynner, in \u201cThe Ten Commandments\u201d).\u00a0 BTW, there is no health official anywhere in the world predicting the peak and end dates for their country-wide illness\u2014except for Iran\u2019s Health Minister.\u00a0 See \u201cIran Health Minister Says Coronavirus Epidemic Will Peak In April,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, March 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWHO says Iran\u2019s strategies to control COVID-19 \u2018in the right direction\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, March 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran’s coronavirus ‘diagnosis’ app looks more like a surveillance tool,\u201d<\/a> Jon Fingas, Engadget, March 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cUN Human Rights Council applauds Iran in periodic review,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, March 14, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0What type of a world do we live in?\u00a0 Where is the UN Sec. Gen., deriding the most recent HRCouncil report praising Iran?\u00a0 Iran was backed by North Korea, Syria, Russia, and China, over 100 countries actually, and Iran will in later reports praise them.\u00a0 China said it \u201ccommends Iran\u2019s efforts to eradicate poverty, enhance social security, protect the rights of vulnerable groups and hopes Iran will continue to drive economic and social development to provide a solid basis for the enjoyment of all human rights.\u201d\u00a0 Russia praised Iran\u2019s \u201ccooperation with human rights treaty bodies and openness for dialogue.\u201d\u00a0 Deputy chief of Iran\u2019s High Council on Human Rights, Majid Tafreshi, said that all citizens in Iran are \u201cequally protected by the law,\u201d and said that journalists and NGOs have freedom of expression.\u00a0 Amnesty International\u2019s most recent report, in contrast, has it right\u2014Iran is a serial abuser of human rights and is guilty of crimes against humanity.\u00a0 Iran refused to allow the UN\u2019s Special Rapporteur on Iran to tour the country to investigate its human rights conditions.\u00a0 According to Amnesty International\u2019s latest report, Iran\u2019s authorities have \u201cheavily suppressed the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. Security forces used lethal force unlawfully to crush protests, killing hundreds, and arbitrarily detaining thousands of protesters. The authorities arbitrarily detained over 200 human rights defenders and imposed sentences of imprisonment and flogging against many of them.\u00a0 \u201cWomen continued to face discrimination and the authorities intensified their crackdown against women\u2019s rights defenders campaigning against forced veiling laws. Ethnic and religious minorities faced entrenched discrimination,\u201d the report said.\u00a0 \u201cTorture and other ill-treatment, including through the denial of medical care, remained widespread and systematic; they were committed with impunity. Cruel, inhuman and degrading judicial punishments were carried out.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cScores of people were executed, sometimes in public; several were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. \u00a0There were systematic violations of fair trial rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIran’s Second Largest City At Risk Of Coronavirus Disaster,\u201d Maryam Sinaiee, Radio Farda, March 14, 2020. \u201cTop Iranian general Shabani dies of Covid-19,\u201d New Straits Times, March 14, 2020.\u00a0 Brig. Gen. Nasser Shabani had at one time been responsible for quelling internal dissent. April 8 is the big day, the day after which Iran\u2019s rate … <\/p>\n

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