The Ayatollah Khamenei’s call to wage “health jihad” is becoming manifest in specific actions:
“Hezbollah has been using the coronavirus outbreak for propaganda purposes all week, publishing videos showing alleged “Hezbollah health units” helping disinfect parts of Lebanon and Iran with water hoses, a method the Middle East Monitor noted that scientists have dismissed as “ineffective”
Propaganda is a primary tool of Iran and its proxies. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also “claimed that its jihadis are working on a vaccine to fight the Chinese coronavirus and that it would engage in several ‘biological defense exercises.'”
Iran has been scrambling to keep its people believing in its mullahs and jihadists by whatever means possible. The mullahs are trying to stave off a unified revolt in the face of their incompetence and their practice of putting their people last on the priority list. Iran has been diverting funds from domestic priorities during coronavirus outbreak to pay for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Now the mullahs are attempting to indoctrinate their people with the expected propaganda that the virus is America and Israel’s fault, and to encourage victimhood paranoia by claiming that the coronavirus was “specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians.”
“Hezbollah Joins Iranian Terrorists in Jihad Against Chinese Coronavirus,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, March 26, 2020:
The Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah announced it would invest in doctors, medical equipment, and clinics to treat Chinese coronavirus patients in Lebanon, joining a growing list of terrorist organizations waging what Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dubbed a “jihad” against the pandemic.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that disguises itself as a political party in Lebanon. It has deep ties to the Iranian regime and is active in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region in addition to Iran and Lebanon.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency claimed that Hezbollah “is deploying 1,500 doctors, 3,000 nurses and paramedics and 20,000 more activists” to help contain the coronavirus outbreak in Lebanon, where government officials have documented 368 cases of coronavirus and six deaths as of Thursday. It is not clear where Hezbollah, an organization that specializes in acts of violence to promote radical Islam, is finding doctors, nurses, and paramedics to hire for the fight against the Chinese virus. The 20,000 “activists” are presumably jihadists who participate in promoting the terrorist organization elsewhere.
“It is a real war that we must confront with the mindset of a warrior,” Tasnim quoted Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s executive council, as saying on television. “Our role is to complement the government apparatus and not to stand in its place.”
Safieddine repeatedly compared Hezbollah’s efforts to wartime actions and described the terrorist organization as “fighting coronavirus with capabilities initially put to confront war and aggression.”
Safieddine notably made the announcement rather than the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, who has mostly kept a low profile since the outbreak reached the Middle East. Rumors abounded this month that, in light of dozens of senior members of the Iranian Islamic regime testing positive for the virus, senior Hezbollah members who often meet with them have self-quarantined to prevent from contaminating more people. Some reports speculated that Nasrallah himself had either self-quarantined or become sick after being exposed to the coronavirus.
Hezbollah has been using the coronavirus outbreak for propaganda purposes all week, publishing videos showing alleged “Hezbollah health units” helping disinfect parts of Lebanon and Iran with water hoses, a method the Middle East Monitor noted that scientists have dismissed as “ineffective……