Iran torn between calls for social distancing, Khamenei’s lack of concern, and calls by mullahs to keep shrines open
Christine Douglass-Williams / Jihad Watch
 

Iran is caught between science, the global realities of the coronavirus outbreak, and its backward mullahs, who are determined to maintain the status quo: Radical Shiite clerics in Iran have escalated their pressure on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to keep the nation’s largest holy shrines open – where kissing and touching the shrines is common – […]

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