Wednesday - March 04, 2020

Houston, We Have Lift-Off

Countdown in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Ignition!!

Here’s a recipe that’s so simple you don’t even knead need the recipe. I’ve always called it 3-2-1 bread, but when made with starter and a whole measure of yeast it takes off like a rocket, and goes from flour to table in under 4 hours.

3 parts bread flour to 2 parts all purpose flour to 1 part whole wheat flour, 70% hydration. 2.5% salt, and 1 part well fed sourdough starter, plus a measure of yeast. I guess that actually makes it 3-2-1-1 bread, but who cares?

Standard mixing, kneading, and rising procedures, but watch the dough. It comes up FAST.

Here’s a half sized version of the recipe, which will make one generously sized 24 ounce baked loaf:

188gm bread flour ( 1 1/2 cups )
125gm unbleached all purpose flour ( 1 cup )
62gm whole wheat flour ( 1/2 cup )
9gm table salt
1/2 cup sourdough starter, well fed and kept at 100% hydration
250gm warm water ( 1 cup and 1 tablespoon )
1 measure instant yeast ( 1 packet or 7gm )

Put the starter in a medium mixing bowl, add the water and stir until dissolved. Sprinkle on the yeast and let it sit 10 minutes, then stir it in. Whisk the flours and the salt together in a big mixing bowl.

Add starter water and yeast to flour mix, use your stand mixer on low (speed 1) for a couple minutes, a bit past that “shaggy mess” stage. Let it rest 10-15 minutes.

Knead the dough for 1 minute at speed 2, then at speed 3 for 2 minutes, then at speed 4 for 3 minutes. 1-2-3.

Transfer dough to a lightly greased rising bucket or bowl, cover.  When dough has doubled in size in about 40 minutes, use your plastic bowl scraper and a damp hand to do a few stretch and fold kneads right in the bucket. Cover again. In an hour the dough will have at least tripled in volume. Put your Dutch oven in the oven and set the temperature to 450°F. Dump the dough out on a very lightly floured surface and gently stretch it a bit and work it into a ball. Stretch this boule into a batard (loaf) by working the sides down and under to develop surface tension. Pinch the seams closed, and place smooth side down in a well floured shaping basket (banneton).  I use a linen lined one. Cover and move to the fridge to slow the third rise down while the oven heats.

After about 30-45 minutes the Dutch oven should be plenty hot. Lay out a sheet of parchment paper and flip the banneton onto it, gently lifting it to release the dough. Score the dough 2 or 3 times with a serrated bread knife or your lame. Lift the paper and the loaf into the Dutch oven, and bake covered for 20 minutes and then uncovered for 15-20 minutes more. Put an unheated baking sheet under the Dutch oven when you take the lid off to prevent the bottom of the bread from scorching. When done, remove the Dutch oven, take the bread out onto a cooling rack, turn off the oven and open the door. After a couple minutes of cooling, return the loaf to the oven to cure; use a wooden spoon to keep the door cracked open a little, and let the bread normalize while the oven cools, about 20-30 minutes. This will keep the crust crusty as the moisture inside migrates to the crust.

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Valerie Powers Makes Her Groovy Move

Valerie Jarrett: Dem VP Pick Should Be Woman Of Color

Because, you know, Valerie is a Woman of Color. Yeah ... white. She so white she make Corey Booker look like Kanye.

Former President Barack Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett on Tuesday urged whichever 2020 Democratic presidential candidate emerges as the leader after the conclusion of Super Tuesday to “break with conventional wisdom and announce a running mate that’s a woman of color,”

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“Tonight?” asked host Gayle King.

“No, not tonight,” Jarrett replied. “Certainly before the next primary. Woman, person of color, someone who reflects the diversity of our party. And yeah, that’s not usual, that’s not what they normally do, but these are not normal times. And I think it would send an important signal going into the next round of primaries to do so with a running mate.”

Maybe Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is available?

I have no interest in this at all, but I couldn’t resist putting up a picture of her in her Austin Powers outfit. Compare her tone to the three white folks she’s on the video with.

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Sleepy Creepy Uncle Joe Pulls Ahead

Exactly As Expected

And the Super Tuesday results are in, with the status quo supporting, deep state backed, quid pro quo, somewhat senile, DNC machine approved candidate Joe Biden pulling ahead of grumpy old osteoporosis hippie commie Bernie Sanders.

The running totals are here; Biden 387, Sanders 348, Warren 45, and Bloomberg 37. With only 3129 delegates to go!!

Elizabeth Warren only placed 3rd in her own home state. Go away lady Gollum, nobody likes you.

The press will be droning on endlessly about all of this for the next several days. Major yawn. Get back to me when one of these buffoons passes the 1400 delegates mark.




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And it looks like “we’re in it to win it” Mini-Mike is calling it quits

At least he had the guts to stay in until after Super Tuesday.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday after a disappointing Super Tuesday performance, sources told Fox News.

The decision comes after the Democratic candidate won only the American Samoa caucuses on Super Tuesday. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars from his own fortune on his 2020 bid.

He immediately announced he would be endorsing Joe Biden.

Thank goodness there’s still a 1/1024 WOC still in the race, or else it would be one rich old white idiot vs another rich old white idiot. Let’s see if Liarwatha Fauxchahontas Chief Walking Eagle can last another week or three.

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   Tuesday - March 03, 2020

Yeah, that’ll work

A local cleric from the Iranian city of Qom has suggested a novel cure for the new coronavirus - the pre-bedtime rectal administration of violet leaf oil.

Users on Twitter describe how the Ayatollah Tabrizian has publicly denounced Western medicine as “un-Islamic”.

In a post to over 120,000 followers on the social messaging service Telegram, Tabrizian, a purveyor of traditional Islam medicine, listed several alternative techniques for fighting the spread of the contagious disease, known as Covid-19.

According to an Iranian news site, which obtained a screenshot of the message, Tabrizian recommends consuming copious amounts of brown sugar, burning wild rue, as well as inhaling snuff.

His eighth tip is the most striking: “Before bedtime, drench some cotton in violet oil and apply onto your anus”

Ayatollah Tabrizian has written extensively on the essential oil, which he claims has miraculous, life-enhancing properties, such as the power to increase brain mass and reverse cognitive diseases such as Down’s Syndrome.

Yeah, let’s let these brainiacs get the bomb. Riiiight.

To be fair, violet oil does have a following in the natural medication community.

It can be inhaled to help with sleep issues, anxiety and to relieve congestion. The easiest way to do this is to add a few drops to a handkerchief or tissue paper and inhale the aroma directly.

Which makes me seriously wonder about this ayatollah’s sleeping arrangements.

It is an analgesic, expectorant and a decongestant, which makes it particularly helpful for any types of aches and pains.
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In addition, it can be used to reduce swelling and inflammation when massaged into the painful area 3-4 times a day.

And now I’m also wondering about his “lifestyle choices”.

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Headline Pun With Levels Of Innuendo

The cover of today’s NY Daily News, the standard NYC liberal rag, the front page story of how all the other Dem candidates are hopping on the Biden Bus:

This may be really apt in a dark and convoluted manner. There is currently an oddball film out called JoJo Rabbit. It’s about a German boy who joins the Hitler Youth near the end of WWII. He’s such an ardent little Nazi that he creates Adolf Hitler as his imaginary friend. It’s a dark comedy, a coming of age story, and a tale of moral conundrums, as young JoJo has to balance the antisemitism he’s learning at Nazi Camp with the fact that his mother is sheltering a young Jewish Girl in the crawlspaces of their house.

To say that the film is controversial is an understatement. It’s also an emotional whipsaw rollercoaster, taking you from spill-your-popcorn laughter one moment to recoiling in horror the next to terrible crying sadness and back again. I think I might want to see this, even if it does turn out to be super weird; the performances by most of the cast are said to be superb.

So just what is the Daily News trying to say? Sure, sure, NY papers go to extremes to find wretched puns for their front pages, and sometimes they (subconsciously?) hit the bullseye more than intended. Biden seems confused a lot of the time. So is JoJo. Biden has moved really far left in the past year. At the far edge of the leftist horizon, beyond “regular” Socialism but just before tyrannical slave masters and rabid Communists, are the Nazis. The original of those national democratic socialist workers parties, with their Brown Shirts and Antifa folks, etc.

[ review of the film ] a tale of a young Hitler-loving German boy struggling to maintain his allegiance in the latter stages of WWII sounds like a potentially disastrous idea. Actually, though, it turns out to be a masterstroke, as Waititi’s eye for the absurd and sharp understanding of a child’s perspective finds light and humanity amid even mankind’s darkest moments.

What’s more, far from trivializing the horror of the time, the playful, sometimes laugh-out-loud tone that underpins much of the film makes its tough moments all the more gut-wrenching, while Waititi’s strident reminder that so much evil and hatred was able to come from what ultimately boils down to almost childish stupidity resonates way beyond the final credits.

Wow, that seems like one helluva endorsement doesn’t it? “Everybody line up behind der Furor. Ready to fight Bolshie Bernie? Forward March! “ ... until this latest furor changes his allegiance or forgets about his imaginary friends??

Posted by Drew458     on 03/03/2020 at 12:20 PM   
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I Hear It Must Be Spring

It’s sunny and nearly warm today. The lawn service people have arrived with their army of gas powered leaf blowers. They’re all outside my unit right now, making sure the throttles are nice and lubricated, so they can rev those horrible things up and down every few seconds for the next several hours. I’m sure they’ll then practice blowing my early emerging flowers right out of the ground again.

One of the nice things about Winter is that they aren’t around. It’s quiet. And since we’ve only had one bit of snow this season that was worth shoveling, the 3am snow squad hasn’t been around either. More quiet.

Right. Time to make breakfast. Looks like it will be sourdough starter pancakes. You feed the stuff, you get more of it, but you can’t make 3 loaves of bread a day to keep it in check. So you find other things to do with it. Checks fridge ... finds bacon ... mmm!

Oh Joy, it’s Super Tuesday!! Snore ...

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   Monday - March 02, 2020

That’s Good Writin There

Daniel Greenfield on Trump bashing, the coronavirus, and the deeper state

This is a must read. 15 minutes.

If the coronavirus becomes a critical problem in this country, the blame will go back to an obscure arm of the State Department, but it will never be placed there. Whatever happens a year from now, no one outside a small professional class will have ever heard of the Directorate of Operational Medicine.

The media will spend all its time bashing President Trump, Pence, assorted cabinet members, and perhaps the CDC, without ever drilling down to the facts, even though it has them at hand. The media’s rule of thumb is that natural disasters and disease outbreaks are always successfully managed by Democrats and mismanaged by Republicans. Katrina and Maria were disasters, but Sandy was a success story. The coronavirus is a catastrophe, but the Ebola virus was brilliantly handed by smart people who are handling the coronavirus response. But it’s different because the guy in the White House is.

The truth is that all of these were mismanaged by the same agencies, many of the same people, and by a government infrastructure that excels at drawing up big budget proposals, but is inept at solving problems when they actually emerge, and just follow whatever protocols will cover its collective asses.

All the rest is a matter of the uncontrollable, the innate qualities of the storm or the disease, and the story that the media chooses to tell about the disaster in the service of its political agenda.

Just as after Katrina and Maria, watch for the outpouring of lies, the claims that New Orleans had reverted to cannibalism and that everyone in Puerto Rico was dead, will be matched and exceeded.

There will be a cure for the coronavirus. But there’s no cure for the spread of viral fake news.

There is however a cure for the decisions that led to a coronavirus problem in the United States.

It’s called the Constitution.

President Trump did not want any of the infected people brought into America, whether they were citizens or not. The shadow government, deeper than the Deep State, did it anyway. Because that was their protocol. The same protocol used for SARS, for Ebola, for Swine Flu, etc, under several presidents. The same people even.

he truth about disaster relief and pandemic management is that it hasn’t changed much between administrations. The Bush administration dealt with SARS in much the same way that the Obama administration addressed swine flu. And the Trump administration is doing most of the same things.

That’s because the actual decisions are being made by bureaucrats based on existing protocols.
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According to a State Department briefing, the missions were carried out by the Directorate of Operational Medicine within the Bureau of Medical Services. You might think that sounds like it would be part of HHS or NIH, but the Bureau of Medical Services is actually an arm of the State Department.

The Directorate of Operational Medicine is a part of the Bureau assigned to deal with crisis response with a $250 million portfolio and a lot of employees that almost no one outside D.C. ever heard of.

The same guy in charge in 2011 is still in charge today. That doesn’t make him bad, or inept ... but bureaucrats mindlessly follow their own rules, always. Little robots, because that doesn’t require any thought or any risk, and they can’t be blamed for anything. And the vast majority of those rules, and their regulations that the rest of us have to obey, are never made with any kind of legislative oversight. The perils of big government. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) could write books on this subject. Oh wait, he has.

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continuing the diversity theme

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Modeling Can Be Such Hard Work

It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it

For the Valentine’s Day issue of New York magazine in 2002, they hired a model to kiss a NYC fireman who was also a model on the side. The idea was to pay homage to the famous iconic VJ Day picture of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square. To get the picture just right, they had to do several hundred takes. In the wake of 9/11, NYC firefighters were the apogee of heroism.

So, tough job for a pretty model, right? Having to kiss a hunky fireman for half the afternoon. Oh, such a trial.

The model was some Slovenian named Melania Krauss. Off camera, she happened to be having an on-and-off relationship with NYC real estate mogul Donald Trump. We don’t know her as Melania Krauss these days, and her hair seems to be many shades lighter.

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Add Klobuchar To The Loser List

Amy Klobuchar Drops Out Of Dem Primaries

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her Democratic presidential campaign on Monday and plans to endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice president’s White House bid.

She is flying to Dallas and plans to join Biden at his rally Monday night, according to her campaign.

Klobuchar was the third presidential candidate to drop out of the race in less than 49 hours, following Pete Buttigieg’s departure late Sunday and Tom Steyer’s exit late Saturday. Their decisions reflect an urgent push among moderates to consolidate behind Biden as a counter to progressive rival Bernie Sanders.

Klobuchar outlasted several better-known and better-funded Democrats, thanks to a better-than-expected third-place finish in in New Hampshire. But she couldn’t turn that into success elsewhere, as she struggled to build out a campaign that could compete across the country and had poor showings in the next contests.

You know, this is starting to smell bad. Three candidates quitting just before the Big Vote on Super Tuesday? Kinda smells fishy, don’t it? Why bother to do it now, when in 36 hours they would have known for sure that their campaigns were sunk. Or not. And at least the people - you know, all those citizens the Dems say they care so much about and who’s voices the want heard - at least the people would have made their choices.

But no. Ok, Steyer has tons of money, and two billionaires in the Dem primaries is two too many. But let’s see if Booty-Gig and Klobuchar seem to somehow soon acquire a new dacha or a small tropical island. Do the Bernie Buyout thing, just like in 2016.

Cowards or sell-outs. Or both?

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No SCOTUS Bump For Bump Stocks

Supremes Won’t Take Bump Stock Case Until Lower Courts Weigh In

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s regulatory ban on bump stocks, with one of the court’s Trump-appointed justices explaining that the issue needs more time to work through in the lower courts.

The case at hand — Guedes v. ATF — turns heavily on a Supreme Court precedent known as “Chevron deference.” The term was coined after the 1984 Chevron v. NRDC ruling, which provided a framework for when courts should defer to federal agencies’ “reasonable interpretation” of vague laws passed by instead of imposing their own. Conservatives have long taken issue with the precedent, arguing that it gives too much power to the administrative state.

In 2018, the Justice Department announced the new regulation classifying bump stocks as “machine guns” under federal law, despite the fact that they do not change the firing action of a semi-automatic firearm.

In their petition for the Supreme Court to take up the case, the plaintiffs argued that lower courts had incorrectly applied Chevron precedent in upholding the bump stock ban, and should have instead applied a different, less deferential standard for evaluating it.

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In an opinion explaining why the Guedes petition was denied, Justice Neil Gorsuch agreed with the idea that the Chevron deference had been incorrectly applied, noting that the administration had even asked the lower court to waive it.

“The executive branch and affected citizens asked the court to do what courts usually do in statutory interpretation disputes: supply its best independent judgment about what the law means,” the justice wrote. “But, instead of deciding the case the old-fashioned way, the court placed an uninvited thumb on the scale in favor of the government.

Gorsuch went on to write that deferring to the government’s interpretation of the law might not be appropriate for other reasons, too.

“The agency used to tell everyone that bump stocks don’t qualify as ‘machine guns.’ Now it says the opposite,” the justice wrote.

“The law hasn’t changed, only an agency’s interpretation of it. And these days it sometimes seems agencies change their statutory interpretations almost as often as elections change administrations,”
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“Before deciding whether to weigh in, we would benefit from hearing their considered judgments — provided, of course, that they are not afflicted with the same problems,” Gorsuch concluded. “But waiting should not be mistaken for lack of concern.”

As much as I respect President Trump, I think he was rather knee-jerk in this situation. Sure, I think these are rather silly devices, and that one bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole bunch. But the way to handle this is through level headed legislation ... if you can find some.

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Tribalism, Panic, Self-Destructive Tendencies

Iranians In Bandar Abbas Burn Down Clinic Because COVID Patients From Another Town Were There

Residents in Bandar Abbas in Southern Iran have burned down a hospital as they believed that patients carrying the Coronavirus had been admitted there. 

Rumours started circulating that people from another town infected with Covid-19 had been admitted at the hospital.

However, the hospital’s spokesman said that was a lie and no coronavirus patients were there, according to news channel al-Arabija.

A clinic in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas was torched on Friday because some people believed that coronavirus patients from another city were quarantined in it, according to Iranian media reports.

Rumors spread that 10 infected people were transported from the city of Qom, the epicenter of the virus in Iran, to Towhid Clinic, according to social media posts.

However, the semi-official Fars News Agency referred to the claims of people being transferred to the southern Bandar Abbas city as “unfounded rumors” and that this information “angered” some residents who then set fire to the clinic.

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Meanwhile, Iran seems to feel that hospitals and clinics can be purified with incense. Way to join the 21st Century!!



And if that doesn’t work, in the middle of this outbreak they’re out there licking shrines one after another.

Iran has arrested two individuals who were filmed licking religious shrines in the Shia holy cities of Qom and Mashhad amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country, according to state media.

Videos showing Iranians kissing and licking Shia shrines despite the risks of coronavirus have gone viral online, amid controversy over calls to close access to the shrines as the country continues to suffer from an outbreak of the deadly virus.

As of Monday, 66 in the country had died from the virus and there are 1,501 confirmed cases. A man who was filmed licking the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad was arrested, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

Another man who was filmed licking the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom has also been arrested, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Monday.

The representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Qom had previously urged Iranians to visit the Fatima Masumeh shrine, calling it a “place of healing,” despite the coronavirus outbreak in the city.

UPDATE: Burning Down The Clinic is now the Hong Kong approach too??

Hong Kong police arrested 115 people between Saturday night and Monday morning for several violent incidents over the weekend that included the use of Molotov cocktails to attack designated Chinese coronavirus treatment centers.

In there defense it should be noted that these were the Hong Kong protesters we haven’t heard from in the past couple months, and they were being tear gassed, shot at, and beaten by the cops, often just for assembling. 

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Typhoid Murphy?

Somebody Test Dem Senator Chris Murphy ASAP !!??!

Even worse than his Logan Act defying behavior with Iran, Senator Murphy may have brought back COVID-19 as a parting gift of the Iranians.  Ouch.

This year’s Munich Security Conference may go down in history as the COVID-19 viral super-spreader “event of the century,” if not in all of recorded history. That’s because the Munich 2020 event took place from February Friday 14-Sunday 16, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attended.

Unknown to apparently all the high security-minded attendees, FM Zarif was likely carrying much more than the dark secret that the COVID-19 virus had already begun rampaging through the highest echelons of the Iranian government and society.  FM Zarif , or one of his minions, was likely carrying the actual COVID-19, and infected who knows how many of the world’s highest and most influential politicians at the Munich event.

In fact, US Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, not only met FM Zarif, but met him in Zarif’s hotel suite where there was likely a rat’s nest of COVID-19.  Unless drastic steps are taken, Sen. Murphy may become the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19, and infect the entire US Senate and House of Representatives.

Plenty more at the link. Sure, it’s all just conjecture. At this moment in time. Maybe the safest course of action is to have Murphy, along with every member of the House and Senate, along with all their staff and families, self quarantine for 30 days or so. There may be a large cruise ship or two available for that.

UPDATE: I just love it when I’m ahead of the curve But I didn’t know that 1) Murphy is pro-islam, 2) John Fuckface Kerry was there too, along with pedo-whore chaser Bob Menendez

Calls Grow To Quarantine Murphy

Following the death of Commander Soleimani Democrat Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) lashed out at President Trump for assassinating the Iranian al-Quds terrorist leader who was responsible for the deaths and maiming of HUNDREDS of US soldiers.
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It soon became apparent why Murphy was sooo upset with Soleimani’s death. Senator Murphy has a history of supporting Iran’s mullahs.  Murphy is a routine speaker at the NIAC Council, the regime’s lobby house in the US.

Trita Parsi, the regime’s top activist at NIAC, has praised Senator Murphy for his support of NIAC’s efforts. [ Natioanl Islamic Action Committee or something ]

In February Senator Murphy was caught meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif in a secret meeting in Munich.

Also present were Sen. Menendez, Sen. Van Hollen and John Kerry.

The meeting took place in Zarif’s apartment in Germany, which means that it was likely bugged.

“bugged” being the double entendre, no doubt.

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CoVid-19 Strikes Iran’s Leader

Allah Says Hi

A top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died of coronavirus on Monday.

Mohammad Mirmohammadi, 71, is among a growing number of government officials to contract the virus. He is the first to die.

Iran has logged more deaths than anywhere outside of China, with 54 confirmed fatalities and 978 infections.
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A close adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died of the coronavirus, as the country continues to record a higher death toll than anywhere outside of China.

Mohammad Mirmohammadi, 71, died in hospital in Tehran on Monday, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing Iranian state radio. Mirmohammadi had been a member of Khamenei’s Expediency Council since 2017.

As of Monday morning, Iran had confirmed 978 infections and 54 deaths. China, which has reported more than 80,000 cases and 3,048 deaths, sent a delegation of experts to Iran to help fight the outbreak.

The situation in Iran is cause for concern, according to the AP, as more than half of the 1,150 cases confirmed across the Middle East can be traced back to the country.

On Tuesday, Iran’s deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi revealed he had contacted the virus. The day before he was seen sweating and looking unwell at a press conference.

On Thursday, it was reported that one of Iran’s vice presidents, Masoumeh Ebtekar, had contracted the virus. Ebtekar was in a meeting with Rouhani and the Iranian cabinet as recently as Wednesday.

I would not be at all surprised if the average Achmed in the bazaar sees this situation as a holy sign.

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