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Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/will-irans-regime-survive-coronavirus/
Will Iran's Regime Survive Coronavirus?
(National Review) Ilan Berman - The upper echelons of the Iranian leadership are overwhelmingly aging and infirm, and coronavirus is exacting a deadly toll on this cohort. Moreover, coronavirus has exposed the country's ruling clerical elite as incompetent. Viral videos and social-media posts show coronavirus sufferers collapsing in the streets and Iranian healthcare workers pleading for international assistance. As Mehdi Khalaji of the Washington Institute notes, in recent years Iranian religious officials have been "uncompromisingly rejecting modern medicine and promoting 'Islamic medicine' as the true science inspired by divine knowledge." Today, that policy is having disastrous consequences. The writer is senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council.