The new coronavirus has less danger than the first type of influenza (H1N1 or swine flu). This statement was made by Saeed Namaki, the Minister of Health of Iran, on February 3, 2020 (1398) regarding concerns about the widespread spread of the coronavirus in Iran. Whether true or false, this assumption has been proven completely wrong with the death of 4,110 people from the coronavirus in Iran as of the writing of this article. This comparison was also made while the total number of deaths due to swine flu in Iran since its global outbreak in 2009 until the end of last year (1398) has not exceeded 100 annually, and this disease has never turned into an epidemic in Iran.

On the same date (February 3, 2020), Saeed Namaki had confidently denied the entry and spread of the coronavirus in Iran for the umpteenth time. Only one day later, the Non-Communic

Coronavirus and the policy of denial and rejection in Iran.

Investigations into the performance of the Ministry of Health and other government institutions in Iran before the official confirmation of the spread of coronavirus in the country show that until February 19th of last year, despite numerous signs of the virus’s spread in Iran, the official policy of these institutions was based on denial and rejection. Reports from independent institutions and media outlets, conflicting statements from officials and authorities, and a history of widespread lying by the Islamic Republic’s officials all indicate that until the acceptance of the spread of coronavirus in Iran, the entire power of the Islamic Republic system and its governing institutions was devoted to denying the truth.

In this regard, the first official reaction of the Ministry of Health officials in Iran to the coronavirus was on February 2nd of last year. On this date, Hossein Erfani, the head of the Department of Communicable Diseases at the Ministry of Health, denied the entry and spread of the virus in Iran, while also announcing border controls, including at Imam Khome

And suddenly, coronavirus…

The official acceptance of the Islamic Republic system and at its head, the Ministry of Health, regarding the entry of the coronavirus into Iran and its sudden spread was so sudden that it seemed as if the virus had entered only a few hours ago and in those few hours, it had infected and killed many people.

In this regard, despite the fact that until February 18, 2020, the Iranian Ministry of Health officials, including Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the Minister of Interior, denied the entry of the coronavirus into Iran and the infection of even one person, suddenly on February 19, the Ministry of Health announced that two patients in the city of Qom had lost their lives due to being infected with the coronavirus. While the incubation period of the disease takes between 5 days to 2 weeks and these two individuals were hospitalized after showing symptoms. Therefore, it is not clear when these individuals were diagnosed with the coronavirus and why the information about their infection was only