Iran
Wednesday 8 April 2020
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Iran Foreign Ministry
Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“If @StateDept claims the mounting global questions about US role in #COVID19 pandemic are mere "Iran-made conspiracy theories", then US must answer some of these questions asked by the Global Research.”
Read more...After U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said bogus COVID-19 conspiracy theories spread by Iran put Iranians at risk, that country’s Foreign Ministry doubled down by citing disputed claims from a notorious conspiracy outlet. -
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Unidentified Iranian man
“In sacred places like this, there is no room for viruses, germs or diseases.”
Read more...Videos have emerged on social media of men and children in Iran licking and kissing the walls and doors of holy shrines. While they claim the shrines are immune from the coronavirus, Qom is the epicenter of Iran’s COVID-19 outbreak. -
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Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria
"Obviously, Erdogan threw all his forces [at Idlib], of course on the orders of the Americans. There is no doubt about that."
Read more...Turkey’s latest military attacks around Idlib came after Assad regime troops killed Turkish soldiers who had been deployed in Syria under a deal with Russia and Iran. -
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Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi
Iranian Minister for Information and Communications Technology
“Space suit. #BrightFuture”
Read more...The “space suit” is in fact a children’s costume with its original patches removed. -
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VeteransToday.com
“It has been reported that Mike de Andrea [sic] responsible for the assassination of the martyr Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in the accident of the American plane that was shot down in Afghanistan. He is the most prominent figure of the CIA intelligence in the region.”
Read more...The Pentagon retrieved the remains of the two officers killed in the Jan. 27 crash. Neither was CIA Iran chief Michael D’Andrea. Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. all said the plane was not shot down. -
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Ahmad Hassoun
Grand Mufti of Syria
“You will be judged by God, then you will know what kind of a man he was. Haj Qassem Soleimani, he was a man who prayed all night and fasted all day. He only fights in a place where the enemies of God and humans are, he never lifted his hand against any Muslim, he never lifted a weapon in the face of any Muslim.”
Read more...As a general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Soleimani waged war against Muslims of various sects in several countries. -
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Ali Abedzadeh
Head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization
“The version that the plane was shot down by a rocket cannot be true under any circumstances … it is impossible from the scientific point of view.”
Read more...Evidence suggests an Iranian air defense rocket may have taken down Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752. -
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Margarita Simonyan
Chief Editor of RT (Russia Today) and Rossiya Segodnya
“This is how it is today in Iran. The picture of our agency Ruptly. On Fox News, NBC and Bloomberg there is no such picture. More precisely, there is no picture from the protests. As well as [no] mention of the protests themselves.”
Read more...Margarita Simonyan’s claim that Fox News, NBC and Bloomberg did not report on the protests in Iran over the targeted U.S. killing of Qasem Soleimani is false: All reported on the protests and used video. -
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Elena Panina
Russian lawmaker
"In this situation, we cannot exclude that the American military and intelligence agencies took advantage of the story of the disturbances near the U.S. Embassy in Iraq in their corporate interests and simply framed Donald Trump, who did not fully understand the significance of the figure of Qassem Soleimani, who has the status of a national hero in Iran."
Read more...Trump learned who Soleimani was from a major interview failure during his presidential campaign in 2015, his decision to strike was backed by an American intelligence community assessment and aimed at preventing a major Iranian attack. -
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Walid Muallem
Syrian Foreign Minister
“The Americans are using ISIS as a scarecrow. At the same time they are feeding ISIS, encourage them, protect ISIS leaders and help them move from one area to another.”
Read more...The United States has declared the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” a terrorist organization. There is abundant evidence the U.S. has played a leading role in defeating the group, including killing its leaders and significantly reducing of its numbers. -
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Igor Konashenkov
Russian Defense Ministry representative
“The increase in the number of direct participants and countries that allegedly took part in this ‘operation’, as well as conflicting information about the details of how it was conducted, generates reasonable questions and doubts about its reality, and even more so about its success.”
Read more...Russia responded to the U.S. operation that killed al-Baghdadi with a disinformation campaign aimed at raising doubts about the success of the operation or whether it took place at all. However, there is evidence the U.S. conducted the operation and that al-Baghdadi was killed as a result. -
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Sputnik News
Russian state-funded radio broadcaster
“The training flight of American Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers in waters of the Black Sea ended in a provocation. One of the aircraft simulated the bombing of Crimea.”
Read more...Russian state media tweeted that the training flight of U.S. B-52 nuclear-capable bombers ended in a “provocation” when one of them simulated a bombing mission targeting Russian-occupied Crimea. However, the plane’s path discovered by a Russian flight tracker suggests the B-52 was not Crimea-bound.
