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136 people died on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cIran: Coronavirus death toll rises to 3,739,\u201d<\/a> Zehra Nur Duz, AA, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Trump more dangerous than coronavirus’: Iranian admiral,\u201d<\/a> April 6, 2020, and\u00a0\u201cHuman Rights Watch Urges US to Ease Sanctions on Iran Amidst Growing Pandemic,\u201d<\/a> VOA. April 6, 2020.\u00a0 With regard to the calls from several to release sanctions because Iranians are suffering from coronavirus, I have four observations.\u00a0 The Regime for 40 years has squandered its immense hundreds of billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth to spread the Revolution, intimidate neighbors, and use terror.\u00a0 No other country acts as Iran.\u00a0 Second, this huge wealth was and is mismanaged and not spent on public health, schools, infrastructure, etc. as it should.\u00a0 Third, Iran refuses to comply with FATF global money-laundering rules.\u00a0 Last, in this year\u2019s budget, just this budget year, if Iran would give up its regime of terror against other states it would have enough money itself to take care of its people and their coronavirus needs.\u00a0 Per capita, Iran has so much in sovereign wealth for its people if it would only choose to spend the money the way it should.<\/p>\n

\u201cIranian official backtracks after calling Chinese Covid-19 figures a ‘joke’,\u201d<\/a> Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t take long for the previous story to be addressed.\u00a0 \u201cQuestioning China’s Coronavirus Numbers Causes Diplomatic, Political Uproar In Iran,\u201d<\/a> Maryam Sinaiee, Radio Farda, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

Pres. Rouhani says two-thirds of government employees will return to their offices on April 11.\u00a0 \u201cIran to resume low-risk economic activities amid COVID-19 crisis,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s funeral traditions crumble as bereaved mourn in coronavirus isolation,\u201d<\/a> Rohollah Faghihi, Middle East Eye, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmbassador lists China\u2019s humanitarian aid to Iran,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, April 5, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mousavi Says Tehran Has Not And Will Not Ask U.S. For Help Amid Coronavirus \u2013 State TV,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive missiles fired at \u2018American\u2019 oil company in Iraq – Iranian media,\u201d<\/a> Seth Frantzman, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if the announced funding actually reaches the transport businesses.\u00a0 \u201c$500m Allocated to Compensate for Losses of Iranian Transport Companies,\u201d<\/a> IFP, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cPro-Iran factions in Iraq maneuver to topple another PM-designate,\u201d<\/a> Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201c300 medical workers infected with coronavirus in Iran,\u201d<\/a> MENAFM, AP, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

Another claim that the U.S. caused the virus, but no production of evidence of such.\u00a0 \u201cIranian official calls for probe into US role in creation of coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0The Head of Iran\u2019s Civil Defense Organization, Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, also said, \u201cThe US has been always [been] accused of having a role, either intentionally or accidentally, in the biological events, like the (outbreak of) Ebola.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s virus deaths soar over 10,000 as regime deceives public \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0A long posting from this article.\u00a0 \u201cThe rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran have fabricated the number of Iranian coronavirus deaths in the Middle East\u2019s epicenter of the deadly disease, with the real count of victims exceeding 10,000 people, according to Western security sources. \u201cThe number of corona deaths in Iran is many times higher than the authorities there have previously admitted… the death toll passed the 10,000 mark about 10 days ago when Iran officially reported slightly more than 2,000 deaths,\u201d German paper Die Welt reported Sunday.\u00a0 The death rate in Iran is \u201cfour to five times higher than the regime admitted then,\u201d the report said. \u201cThe current figures are currently officially 55,743 sufferers and 3,452 dead. The current death toll is apparently much higher. On Sunday, it was 12,380, according to Western security sources.\u201d\u00a0 Ebrahim Raisi, the Islamic Republic\u2019s chief judge and a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, ordered that thousands of coronavirus deaths be attributed to diseases such as heart failure or pneumonia, Die Welt reported.\u00a0 The mass deception by Raisi involved directives to issue fake death certificates.\u00a0 \u201cThe cover-up by the mullahs is not only a health risk for the Iranians, but also for other countries,\u201d the report said. \u201cAround 50,000 Iranians traveled to Southeast Asia, Europe or Canada in the last two weeks of March.\u201d\u00a0 Some 1,000 Iranians traveled to Germany and 900 traveled to the United Kingdom during the second half of March. \u2026\u00a0 In late March, Radio Farda, the Iranian branch of US government-funded Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, said 4,298 people have died due to the virus. Tehran said 2,500 people have died.\u00a0 \u201cThe data collected by Radio Farda is also a very conservative estimate, and the real number of the victims could be much higher,\u201d it said. \u201cThe data shows that most of the novel coronavirus victims belong to the provinces of Isfahan, Gilan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Khorasan Razavi, Tehran and Qom.\u201d\u00a0 Iran refuses to release the number of coronavirus victims for each of the country\u2019s 31 provinces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran’s military did “well” by downing Ukrainian plane, MP says,\u201d<\/a> Staff, Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIranian MP Hassan Norouzi told media in the country that the Iranian military did “well” by downing a civilian Ukrainian airliner in January during an Iranian missile attack on the Ain Al-Asad base in Iraq, according to Al Arabiya.\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 Norouzi told the state-run Hamdeli daily on Sunday that the military “carried out their duties well. The movement of the plane was very suspicious.”\u00a0 “The plane was no longer under the control of the watchtower and appeared to have come under America\u2019s control,\u201d Norouzi said, according to news outlet Al Arabiya. “The plane was in Israel the week before and was tampered with.\u201d\u00a0 Norouzi claimed that the plane had “special targets” in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran: China leading fight against COVID-19, generously aiding other countries,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrench researcher chronicles nine months of misery in Iran jail,\u201d<\/a> AFP, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran to gradually ease anti-coronavirus restrictions,\u201d<\/a> Daiji World, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran taps sovereign wealth fund to fight coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Lauren Meier, Washington Times, April 6, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

136 people died on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cIran: Coronavirus death toll rises to 3,739,\u201d Zehra Nur Duz, AA, April 6, 2020. \u201c\u2018Trump more dangerous than coronavirus’: Iranian admiral,\u201d April 6, 2020, and\u00a0\u201cHuman Rights Watch Urges US to Ease Sanctions on Iran Amidst Growing Pandemic,\u201d VOA. April 6, 2020.\u00a0 With regard to the calls from several to release … <\/p>\n

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