The circumstantial evidence that our best friend and only democracy in the Middle East was behind the deliberate release of the Covid virus in Wuhan is compelling.
"The Covid outbreak in Iran first of all makes it less likely the Covid virus was accidentally leaked from the lab in Wuhan since, if it were an accidental leak, it probably wouldn’t have hopped over to Iran just as it was beginning to spread among the Chinese population."
No, but if the Israeli's knew about it (from the MIA report) then they may have released something similar they already had in the fridge. Because it was strange just how lethal the Iranian virus was. It nailed quite a few top level Iranians, including their man in the Vatican. Apparently the morgues were filling up (if we can believer what we read) with ordinary people too. At the time I just assumed it was a really lethal virus but now we know Covid 19 was only slightly worse than flu (if it wasn't just flu rebranded and heavily marketed). And its victims tended to have an average age of 80. So in retrospect Iran's supposedly high death rate was an anomaly. Could the Israelies have spies etc so placed in the Iranian Parliament that their access enabled them to poison some politicians? It would be interesting to know the political leanings of those who died.
"* COVID-19 first started spreading in Iran in February 2020. By mid-March, it had spread widely with thousands of confirmed cases.
* Several high-ranking Iranian government and military officials contracted COVID-19 and died in the first few months of the pandemic. This included members of parliament, Revolutionary Guard commanders, and advisers to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
* In March 2020, about 10% of Iran's parliament members had tested positive for COVID-19. Some analysts stated this was a sign of how widely the virus had spread among Iran's political elite.
* Official death tolls likely undercounted the real impact, as Iran was criticized for a lack of transparency and attempts to downplay the scale of the outbreak early on.
* High-profile deaths continued into April 2020, including a former ambassador and VP candidate Mohammed Mirmohammadi, as well as a senior Revolutionary Guard commander Nasser Shabani.
So in summary, COVID-19 caused significant deaths among senior Iranian politicians and military leaders in the first months of 2020.... appears to have impacted Iran's leadership heavily at an early stage."
That is consistent with a campaign of targeted poisonings - unless all these guys were around 80 and were already in ill health. But given their important roles I'd guess that they were younger than that and relatively healthy. Thus not typical for a covid - 19 death.
1. Note that the report says a large number of 'confirmed cases' but we now know the PCR test gives lots of false positives.
2. It spread widely but the death rate among the general population was (perhaps) kept secret or maybe the high death rate was restricted to the elite and those they infected?
3. And the death rate may have fallen after two & half months - February, March & April. Whereas if it was a virulent, deadly form of covid one would expect the American newspapers to have happily reported the many deaths.
4. But what is most strange is the high death rate among the Iranian military brass and people close to the Ayatollah. (Almost as if someone was trying to infect the Ayatollah by infecting those close to him.)
I'd say - given what little we know - it looks like targeted killings.
I agree that these look like targeted killings. And I would go one step further...
If Israel was behind these targeted killings (highly likely), then it implies that Israel understood exactly what "covid-19" really was (re-branded flu?) and also understood they needed to take advantage of the early period of confusion around covid-19 to perform these killings.
Indeed. Its been argued that James Jesus Angleton was Mossad's man running the CIA during Kennedy's assassination. Given that the upper level management of both FBI and CIA is mostly staffed by them then there is no reason to think those links are broken. When you see Biden being used by the NeoCons to drive forward their genocide you gotta wonder: Since the Pentagon was running covid as a military operation*, then who runs the Pentagon? Here is a clue. At 90+ Kissinger was still sitting on their highest strategy / planning committee (until Trump threw him out). Did they understand the nature of Covid because it was their strategy and their plan? And thus they had had plenty of time to prepare their (complex and very successful) attack upon the Iranian government.
*Attempts to use the courts to resist the lock down mandates were rejected out of hand. Upon demanding an explanation it was revealed that the courts had no jurisdiction over operations run by the US military under emergency powers.
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I wonder if that is why they are so keen to close down free speech online - it enables us to join the dots. That must scare the heck out of them, so much so that the punishment for an undefined crime ("hate" speech) is life imprisonment.
It's chilling (and telling) that they are threatening life imprisonment for the thought crime of "hate speech." They remind me of the Bolsheviks more and more every day.
"The Covid outbreak in Iran first of all makes it less likely the Covid virus was accidentally leaked from the lab in Wuhan since, if it were an accidental leak, it probably wouldn’t have hopped over to Iran just as it was beginning to spread among the Chinese population."
No, but if the Israeli's knew about it (from the MIA report) then they may have released something similar they already had in the fridge. Because it was strange just how lethal the Iranian virus was. It nailed quite a few top level Iranians, including their man in the Vatican. Apparently the morgues were filling up (if we can believer what we read) with ordinary people too. At the time I just assumed it was a really lethal virus but now we know Covid 19 was only slightly worse than flu (if it wasn't just flu rebranded and heavily marketed). And its victims tended to have an average age of 80. So in retrospect Iran's supposedly high death rate was an anomaly. Could the Israelies have spies etc so placed in the Iranian Parliament that their access enabled them to poison some politicians? It would be interesting to know the political leanings of those who died.
A little birdie tells me;
"* COVID-19 first started spreading in Iran in February 2020. By mid-March, it had spread widely with thousands of confirmed cases.
* Several high-ranking Iranian government and military officials contracted COVID-19 and died in the first few months of the pandemic. This included members of parliament, Revolutionary Guard commanders, and advisers to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
* In March 2020, about 10% of Iran's parliament members had tested positive for COVID-19. Some analysts stated this was a sign of how widely the virus had spread among Iran's political elite.
* Official death tolls likely undercounted the real impact, as Iran was criticized for a lack of transparency and attempts to downplay the scale of the outbreak early on.
* High-profile deaths continued into April 2020, including a former ambassador and VP candidate Mohammed Mirmohammadi, as well as a senior Revolutionary Guard commander Nasser Shabani.
So in summary, COVID-19 caused significant deaths among senior Iranian politicians and military leaders in the first months of 2020.... appears to have impacted Iran's leadership heavily at an early stage."
That is consistent with a campaign of targeted poisonings - unless all these guys were around 80 and were already in ill health. But given their important roles I'd guess that they were younger than that and relatively healthy. Thus not typical for a covid - 19 death.
1. Note that the report says a large number of 'confirmed cases' but we now know the PCR test gives lots of false positives.
2. It spread widely but the death rate among the general population was (perhaps) kept secret or maybe the high death rate was restricted to the elite and those they infected?
3. And the death rate may have fallen after two & half months - February, March & April. Whereas if it was a virulent, deadly form of covid one would expect the American newspapers to have happily reported the many deaths.
4. But what is most strange is the high death rate among the Iranian military brass and people close to the Ayatollah. (Almost as if someone was trying to infect the Ayatollah by infecting those close to him.)
I'd say - given what little we know - it looks like targeted killings.
I agree that these look like targeted killings. And I would go one step further...
If Israel was behind these targeted killings (highly likely), then it implies that Israel understood exactly what "covid-19" really was (re-branded flu?) and also understood they needed to take advantage of the early period of confusion around covid-19 to perform these killings.
Indeed. Its been argued that James Jesus Angleton was Mossad's man running the CIA during Kennedy's assassination. Given that the upper level management of both FBI and CIA is mostly staffed by them then there is no reason to think those links are broken. When you see Biden being used by the NeoCons to drive forward their genocide you gotta wonder: Since the Pentagon was running covid as a military operation*, then who runs the Pentagon? Here is a clue. At 90+ Kissinger was still sitting on their highest strategy / planning committee (until Trump threw him out). Did they understand the nature of Covid because it was their strategy and their plan? And thus they had had plenty of time to prepare their (complex and very successful) attack upon the Iranian government.
*Attempts to use the courts to resist the lock down mandates were rejected out of hand. Upon demanding an explanation it was revealed that the courts had no jurisdiction over operations run by the US military under emergency powers.
Also
I wonder if that is why they are so keen to close down free speech online - it enables us to join the dots. That must scare the heck out of them, so much so that the punishment for an undefined crime ("hate" speech) is life imprisonment.
It's chilling (and telling) that they are threatening life imprisonment for the thought crime of "hate speech." They remind me of the Bolsheviks more and more every day.