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Iran Backs China, Calls to Investigate U.S. 'Creation and Spread' of Coronavirus
Newsweek ^ | 18 March 2020 | Tom O'Connor

Posted on 03/18/2020 4:45:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom

ran has backed China's calls to investigate yet unfounded claims of the United States being the origin of the new coronavirus as an international blame game worsened over a pandemic that has infected more than 200,000 people across the globe.

Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani lashed out on Twitter Wednesday against what he called the "typical way" in which some U.S. officials have emphasized China and its central Hubei province city of Wuhan as the likely place where the COVID-19 disease began and have blamed both Beijing and Tehran's governments for failing to stop its spread. Shamkhani argued this was being done by U.S. officials done in order to "evade responsibility" themselves.

"Instead of leveling false accusations against China and Iran, U.S. officials should respond to international demands regarding its role in creating and spreading the coronavirus and the continuation of its crimes against the Iranian people by keeping in place the economic sanctions," the senior Iranian official wrote.

Shamkhani's rhetoric echoed that of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who alleged in a tweet Thursday that it "might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alishamkhani; china; coronavirus; iran; iraq; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; twitter; wuhan; zhaolijian
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We've got the right enemies, anyway.
1 posted on 03/18/2020 4:45:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

Nuke them both. Over it!


2 posted on 03/18/2020 4:46:05 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Steely Tom

iran spread this atrocity into other countries.

china and iran owe the world very much tonight.


3 posted on 03/18/2020 4:46:17 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Steely Tom

Russia already blamed the UK or they would join in lol


4 posted on 03/18/2020 4:47:07 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Diogenesis

Let’s see. We’re looking at 20% unemployment just to take them down.


5 posted on 03/18/2020 4:47:09 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Steely Tom

We know this escaped the biolab in Wuhan. They know that we know. Keep asking for a world wide smackdown Iran and China, if you keep pushing your bullshit.


6 posted on 03/18/2020 4:47:15 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Diogenesis

Parking lot time!


7 posted on 03/18/2020 4:47:46 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Steely Tom

If that GD freak in North Korea opens his yap, end him and his nightmare kingdom right there.


8 posted on 03/18/2020 4:48:23 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: Steely Tom

Baghdad Bob’s gone international. Nice gig.


9 posted on 03/18/2020 4:49:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: rrrod

Didn’t Boris Johnson collude with Putin? And with a name like Boris, too. Obviously a Russian agent.


10 posted on 03/18/2020 4:51:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Steely Tom
Trump: without evidence, widely debunked, etc.

Communist China and Islamic Iran: yet unfounded

11 posted on 03/18/2020 4:52:08 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Steely Tom

I think PRC might be wise to shut its pie hole while it’s ahead.


12 posted on 03/18/2020 4:56:14 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Steely Tom

F*** you, you ***holes.

There’s going to be a reckoning.


13 posted on 03/18/2020 4:56:27 PM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing "Coronaphobia", I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: The Toll

Yup problem solved


14 posted on 03/18/2020 4:56:42 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: Steely Tom

they neglected to mention calls for investigation by the WaPo and NYT


15 posted on 03/18/2020 4:57:02 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: StolarStorm

The Chinese wanted to use Wuhan as a human incubator so it would spread world wide. So what if 100,000 or1,000,000 Chinese die? This is a regime that has always looked at its people as pieces of meat, to be disposed of as the state sees fit. I think of the “human wave” attacks during the Korean War.

And that was part of their calculation. They knew that American and European culture would never tolerate that. We will never make that same calculation. We will suffer millions of lost jobs and trillions in lost wealth to prevent thousands of deaths.


16 posted on 03/18/2020 5:00:11 PM PDT by henkster
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To: Eleutheria5

Your right!


17 posted on 03/18/2020 5:00:38 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: The Toll

Burn out the virus for sure.


18 posted on 03/18/2020 5:00:51 PM PDT by databoss
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To: Steely Tom

There is no doubt that the commies and mooslimb brotherhood have taken over the DUmocrat party.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-reps-pictured-anti-semite-alleged-muslim-ryan-saavedra


19 posted on 03/18/2020 5:02:59 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Steely Tom

US mind control rays took over researchers at the Wuhan Biological Weapons Research Laboratory...yeah, thats the ticket.


20 posted on 03/18/2020 5:07:23 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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