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Iran’s coronavirus boast backfires as country becomes new disease epicentre

Iran bragged the coronavirus wouldn’t be a problem and even exported face masks. Now it’s the deadliest spot outside China.



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March 4, 20202:07pm

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An Iranian medic treats a patient infected with COVID-19 at a hospital in Tehran. Picture: AFP/Mizan News Agency Source:AFP



Just weeks ago, as the coronavirus began ripping a deadly path of destruction through China, Iranian leaders boasted the nation would not succumb to the disease.

Now Iran has emerged as a new epicentre for COVID-19, officially recording 77 deaths and more than 2,300 confirmed cases since it announced its first case on February 20.

Not only has the virus well and truly taken hold in the Gulf nation, it has decimated the government, with nearly three dozen Iranian officials and members of parliament infected.

One of them, 71-year-old Mohamma Mirmohammadi, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died on Monday.

Hadi Khosroshahi, One of the country’s top clerics, died last Thursday. Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar and Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi, who was heading the government’s task force on coronavirus, have also fallen ill, according to state media.

But while the official statistics paint a worrying picture, observers believe the true figures are much higher, with activists and journalists accusing the Iranian leadership of a cover up.

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