IRGC gearing up for biodefense maneuvers, disinfection operations across Iran
…from PressTV, Tehran
[ Editor’s note: One thing that Iran and China have done during the pandemic is to use their military resources to their fullest extent. Not comes Iran realizing that it might as well have the IRGC run a countrywide drill so it is better prepared for the next time from the experience that will be gained.
The irony in their ability to do this is due to their having been force to ramp up production of sanctioned imported goods, and begin new production where it was feasible. That effort has helped them tremendously in the current scourge.
Maybe the IRGC has been reading our VT material where biological and chemical weapons testing has gone on for many years with the goal of using something in trace amounts of a period of weeks to a couple of months who effect would be to mimic other epidemics and common health issues.
VT has been getting a lot of contact traffic from many parties to see the international network of biological labs in third world countries run by the US and where many are in the border areas of publicly deemed potential threats to the US.
These are not countries that are doing such on our borders, but we are. Imagine what the US response if Russian or China made deals with Canada and Mexico to do such on our borders. It would be consider a potential act of war.
As far as I know there is no international independent monitoring of these labs, and really no one paying much attention to them, especially mass media. And here we are, after all of these labs set up and working for years and were were still unprepared …Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … March 24, 2020 –
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is gearing up for fresh biological defense drills as well as countrywide disinfection operations amid warnings that the new coronavirus pandemic may be the outcome of a biological attack targeting certain nations.
Addressing a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the IRGC’s Ground Forces, said the massive drills would start on Wednesday.
“The clean-up operations will be carried out in 3,000 locations across the country and 100 spots in Tehran,” he added.
He noted that all medical centers belonging to the IRGC’s Ground Forces, including field hospitals, will be put to use at full capacity during the exercise.
The senior commander said a total of 100 units of the IRGC’s Ground Forces operating in 10 bases have been organized to conduct the disinfection operations.
Pakpour added that the exercises would be staged in coordination with the Health Ministry’s National Headquarters for Managing and Fighting the Coronavirus and in line with the Armed Forces’ policies. The maneuver, he added, would involve all units of the IRGC, with the Ground Forces taking the lead.
He emphasized that all the IRGC’s measures, including the treatment of the coronavirus patients and disinfection, have been conducted based on the requirements of the national HQ tasked with containing the virus.
The IRGC has set up filed hospitals along with convalescent homes in many provinces across the country, including Kashan, Tehran, Urmia, Gorgan, Babol, Ahvaz, Kermanshah and Sanandaj.
Similar drills were staged in mid-March after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warned in an edict addressed to Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri that the coronavirus outbreak might be the result of a “biological attack” against the Islamic Republic.
“Since there is some evidence that this incident might be a ‘biological attack’, this measure could be also some form of biological defense drill, which would add to national power and strength [of the country],” the Leader said.
The highly-contagious virus — named COVID-19 — first showed up in China and later spread to other countries of the world. Iran has been among the states worst hit by the pandemic.
Iranian Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Tuesday that the number of coronavirus deaths had increased to 1,934 and the total infections to 24,811 during the past 24 hours.
Jahanpour further put the number of patients who have recovered from the viral disease at 8,913.
General Nasrollah Fathian, in charge of coordinating executive operations at the National Headquarters to Fight the Coronavirus, said on Monday that Iranian scientists and intelligence experts are examining the possibility of the coronavirus being a biological warfare waged against the Iranian people.
Earlier this month, China also raised the possibility of COVID-19 being a biological weapon, saying “it might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan (where the virus initially emerged). Be transparent! Make public your data! US owes us an explanation!”
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How do you deal with a country with a large strategic nuclear capability run by people crazy enough to want to use them to bring on End Times™ (or criminal elites who believe they could outlast fallout and nuclear winter in their deep underground shelters)?
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