| Iranian here. The author of tweet is also an Iranian. All the reasons he mentioned is absolutely legit. 1) it was just before election and needed high turnout --> This is true. State sponsored TV started announcing Corona death cases exactly after election day. It is impossible to get the virus and die in same day. Obviously they knew that virus is in early phases of spreading before election. 2) due to political need, did not stop flights to china ---> As you remember in early days many airlines refrain carrying Chinese. Mahan Airline was pretty much the only carrier that transported Chinese back to China from middle east which is through Tehran IKA. This airport is roughly 1 hour away from Qom. 3) source seems to becleric students from china arrived in Qom --> This is also true. Qom has the biggest religious school in middle east and it has many students from east/central Asia. 4) did not close religious shrines --> Which is obvious Note that there are only few cases that this virus can get into Iran which is more or less an isolated country: 1. Chinese coming into Qom as becleric students 2. Chinese working in Huawei in Tehran's office. 3. Chinese working in oil sector in southern cities. Other than above three cases there is pretty much no other way for this virus to get into Iran as there was no other case in Turkey/Emirates/Pakistan, ... since they started putting Chinese into quarantine a lot earlier than us. |