Source:
RT News
Сoronavirus
may be a product of US ‘biological attack’ aimed at Iran & China, IRGC
chief claims
The
US сould be the prime culprit behind Covid-2019 outbreak that hit China and
then Iran, head of its elite Revolutionary Guards claimed, threatening that the
virus will eventually be turned against those who unleashed it.
“It
is possible that this virus is a product of a biological attack by America
which initially spread to China and then to Iran and the rest of the
world," Hossein Salami said on Thursday.
He
vowed that Iran would "fight" the virus and cautioned that the
illness "will return" to the United States, if Washington was indeed
responsible for the outbreak.
Though
such conspiracy theories have been circulating for a while, there's still no
official proof it could be true.
The
Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, General Gholam Reza Jalali, said
earlier on Tuesday that media fear-mongering over the new corornavirus in the
country bolsters claims that the virus is a biological attack on China and
Iran. He said that some reports indicate that it could be a hostile state, but
added that his suspicion requires laboratorial investigation and a study of the
virus genome.
Iran
has been one of the countries hit hardest by Covid-19 outside of mainland China
where it originated. As of Thursday, the Islamic Republic has reported 3,513
confirmed cases and 107 deaths attributed to the virus. Some 15 of those who
have succumbed to the coronavirus died in the last 24 hours, according to
Iran's Health Minister Saeed Namaki.
The
country has shuttered all schools and universities until the end of the
country's calendar year on March 20 in an effort to stop the spread of the
virus.
On
Tuesday, state media announced that the head of Iran's emergency medical
services was being treated for coronavirus. Numerous high-level Iranian
officials have fallen ill to the virus. Recently, 23 lawmakers tested positive
for the illness in the Islamic Republic. Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a member of a
council that advises the supreme leader, died after falling sick from the
disease. His death follows those of two other high-profile Iranians who
contracted the virus – a former ambassador and a newly-elected member of
parliament.
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