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2020-03-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Using Anti-Protest Water Cannons to ‘Crack Down on Coronavirus’

[BREITBART] Security forces deployed drones and water cannons across Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Tuesday in a bid to contain the coronavirus, a sign of the severity of the country’s outbreak.

Footage broadcast by Iranian state media showed water cannons, usually used to disperse anti-government demonstrations, spraying the streets with disinfectant. A banner on the side of one of the vehicles read: "Operation Crackdown on Corona."
I'm sure that's clever with a great acronym in Farsi
The use of these measures comes as Iran grapples with the most severe levels of contagion outside China. Iran’s Health Ministry confirmed that 77 people have now died of the disease, while there are now over 1,500 confirmed cases nationwide. Multiple reports from both within Iran and in international news agencies have challenged these statistics as significantly lower than the real numbers. This weekend, BBC Persia cited health sources claiming that at least 210 people may have already died, far above the official figure.

An #Iranian cleric is running away from #Qom city in Iran where #coronavirus is rampant.
A follower asked him to bless her. He said a prayer & blew air in her water bottle!
Their ignorance has no limits#BaghdadPost #COVID19

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— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) March 3, 2020

Deputy Speaker: 23 #Iranian MPs test positive for #Coronavirus #BaghdadPost #CoronavirusOutbreak #CoronaVirusIran #COVID19 #CoronaVirusUpdate

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— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) March 3, 2020

Video shows emergency services bringing in more #coronavirus patients to the Imam Hossein Hospital of Tehran, as #Iran confirms 11 more people have died from the disease in the past day, bringing the Islamic republic’s overall death toll to 77.#COVID_19 https://t.co/4kZV5pcJQa pic.twitter.com/8Po1QevFGt
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 3, 2020

“This calamity is not that big of a deal in our view. There have been bigger ones in the past and we have had such cases in this country,” #Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says on the #coronavirus outbreak as Tehran says its death toll jumps to 77.https://t.co/YQkpQeaA5P pic.twitter.com/2LcGreZAKw
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 3, 2020

The head of Iran’s emergency services has been infected with #coronavirus, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.https://t.co/X6zvBgiO64 pic.twitter.com/e7cXVcU1Bo
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 3, 2020

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