Posted on 03/12/2020 11:06:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Two days after Iran declared its first cases of the novel coronavirus - in what would become one of the largest outbreaks of the illness outside of China - evidence of unusual activity appeared at a cemetery near where the infections emerged.
At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 80 miles south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as Feb. 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches - their lengths totaling 100 yards - were visible at the site from space.
According to expert analysis, video testimony and official statements, the graves were dug to accommodate the rising number of virus victims in Qom.
Iran, a nation of about 80 million people, has suffered a particularly deadly surge of coronavirus infections, including among its top leadership. Iran's Health Ministry says that 429 people have died of the virus, which causes the disease known as covid-19, and more than 10,000 have fallen ill. Among the dead are members of parliament, a former diplomat and even a senior adviser to the Supreme Leader. At least two dozen other officials, including a vice president, have been infected.
In Qom, the spiritual center of Iran's ruling Shiite clerics, more than 846 people have contracted the virus, officials say. Iran's government has not released an official death toll for Qom, however, where about 1.2 million people live. But videos, satellite images and other open-source data from the cemetery - a vast complex six miles north of the city center - suggest that the number of people struck down by the virus there is significantly higher than the official figure.
A senior imagery analyst at Maxar Technologies in Colorado said the size of the trenches and the speed with which they were excavated together mark a clear departure from past burial practices involving individual and family plots at the site. In addition to satellite imagery, videos posted on social media from the cemetery show the extended rows of graves at Behesht-e Masoumeh and say they are meant for coronavirus victims.
I wonder what the real death toll is for Iran and China?
Way over what they each will admit to.
Interesting that the Iranian city hardest hit is QOM, their ‘holy’ city................God has a really good sense of irony..............
Qom, Iran, the Shiite spiritual capital, has an unbelievably high number of HIV positives, immunodeficient people, due to both sodomy and heroin from Afghanistan IV drug use.
And licking things like statues and spitting ‘blessings’ into water bottles.................
The Great Wall of China is visible from space and its 10’ wide. That whole “visible from space” thing is greatly overblown.
Golf balls in a sand trap are now visible from space.
Perhaps for Iran, today IS a good day to get rid of dissidents and the like. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
That is why certain briefings are classified, because the real skinny is being delivered.
This thread is useless without pics.
Precisely what occurred to me as I read the article.
“The Great Wall of China is visible from space and its 10’ wide. That whole “visible from space” thing is greatly overblown.”
Is China’s Great Wall Visible from Space?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-chinas-great-wall-visible-from-space/
Artificial structures visible from space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_structures_visible_from_space
Tin Foil Hat Break
Q: is this a pre-planned event?
1. Remember all those government stocked bio coffins that can hold up to 3 bodies?
2. Remember the zombie apocalypse training the military performed?
3. Recall those mass graves pre-dug at various locales around the country?
4. Doesn’t the gubmint have an ‘in place’ bio epidemic response plan?
Are the #’d items related? Or do they go is disparate directions?
Just pondering
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A car is visible from space with the right satellite. With the exception of the light from cities at night, I don’t think any man made object can be seen from space with the naked eye.
Did you take a penalty?
Iran: Mullahs’ spit in water bottles to bless against Coronavirus:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3820805/posts
Iranians lick shrines and say they are ‘not scared of coronavirus:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3820937/posts
I’m beginning to think the same thing.
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