[n0rbwah]

The Spanish Flu was a hundred years ago, I highly doubt that what happened then in Iran has much relations to what's happening now.

What's happening now has more to do with their theocratic regime that didn't take the threat seriously and doesn't care much about their people.

[ghostpepper]

Wouldn't that require two unrelated explanations for higher viral-outbreak mortality rates? Isn't the explanation that doesn't require a coincidence more plausible?

[n0rbwah]

> Wouldn't that require two unrelated explanations for higher viral-outbreak mortality rates?

That doesn't sound unreasonable at all when the two outbreaks are separated by a century. A lot has changed between 1920 and 2020.