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May 13, 2020

How an Iranian Airline Brought the Coronavirus to the Middle East

Mahan Air carries both terrorism and pandemic.

Thus far, the Islamic Republic has been the Middle Eastern country hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus seems to have been carried there directly from China by Iran’s Mahan Air, which, although nominally private, is deeply intertwined with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Moreover, writes Michael Segall, the airline has likely spread the disease to other countries while abetting the ayatollahs’ military ambitions:

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