US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday demanded that Iran "tell the truth" about a coronavirus outbreak, voicing alarm at allegations of a cover-up.

"The United States is deeply concerned by information indicating the Iranian regime may have suppressed vital details about the outbreak in that country," Pompeo told reporters in Washington.

"All nations including Iran should tell the truth about the coronavirus and cooperate with international aid organizations," he said.

Iran has reported 15 deaths from the epidemic, more than in any country other than China. Both countries are considered top adversaries by President Donald Trump's administration.

The Iranian government has pledged greater transparency after a lawmaker alleged that the clerical regime was playing down the outbreak and that the toll could be as high as 50.


Pompeo said that both China and Iran could have better contained coronavirus if they allowed free expression and he saluted foreign journalists who have reported on the epidemic.

"If China permitted its own important journals and medical personnel to speak and investigate freely, Chinese officials and other nations would have been far better prepared to address the challenge," Pompeo said.

Pompeo said that the United States had quarantined all people known to have contracted the virus and that Washington would take further "appropriate action" if needed.

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/pompeo-says-iran-must-tell-truth-coronavirus-155827927.html

Our World is in Trouble...

This Corona Virus thing seems to be beyond what is shown out there..

At This Point , I admonish all to Make Peace with JESUS CHRIST...

This Earth is Closing up...

Prepare yourself for Eternity..

He/ She That Hath Ears to Hear, Let Them Hear...

There are a lot of secrecy about this coronavirus, and definitely the US, China, Russia and Iran know the truth. Why is it that both China and Iran (the two nations Trump is fighting) are now having highest casualties.....Pompeo? Pompeo question actually means Iran figure should be higher because we (USA) knows what we've done

this pompeo is an idiot.

Na Iran headache go kill this man. I won't be surprised if they sanction Iran for having the coronavirus
I don't know why they are so obsessed with Iran like this.

Ask yourself this question: Qui Bono – who benefits from the coronavirus?

That is the question the Amerikan Bastards – both mainstream and (fake) alternative media – are afraid to ask because the answer leads straight back to the United Snakes of Amerikastan.

The Amerikan MSM are saying China may have infected herself by an escape of the virus from the Wuhan lab.

None of them are mentioning the other theory that China is being attacked by an outside party - BECAUSE - That obvious outside party, would be the United Snakes of Amerikastan - And no one dares to bring up that theory.

The deployment of coronavirus strikes a major hit against the Chinese economy, can politically destabilize the country, and is a global propaganda weapon against China herself.

Now, Iran & other Amerikan enemies are their next target.

Dmitry Orlov did a brilliant job in dissecting this conspiracy by the United Snakes of Amerikastan.

A Most Convenient Virus By Dmitry Orlov

Excerpt:

On the plus side, those who succumb to it are predominantly Chinese, male and elderly, and this may be taken as an indication of some very clever targeting.

In fact, the selectivity of this virus may be indicative of an effort to selectively take out members of the Chinese Communist party, in order to destabilize China politically, to effect regime change there and to impose US-style Freedom & Democracy upon the hapless Chinese population.

Given that the US no longer has the military might to take on China (and can’t even respond to Iranian rocket attacks on its military bases), and given that the US has pretty much lost the trade war against China, a biological weapon may be the only arrow left in its quiver.

Let’s keep in mind that the Pentagon has built quite a number of facilities around the world that research various pathogens.

Given that this is the Pentagon, whose basic task involves killing people, not the World Health Organization, it seems likely that they also do something along the lines of developing effective biological weapons.

A couple of years ago US operatives were caught collecting DNA samples from the Russian population and were promptly escorted out of the country.

(Yes, I remember creating a topic on Nairaland about this)

https://www.nairaland.com/4156257/why-us-air-force-collecting

The obvious supposition is that these samples were to be used to develop biological weapons to specifically target the Russian population.

I suspect that the specialists charged with this task were most disappointed to discover that the vast majority of the Russian population consists of just your regular white people, pretty much the same the world over, and to target them is to target themselves.

But that is not the case with the Chinese, whose genetic makeup is more distinctive. This is all clearly inconclusive, and it may very well be the case that the Pentagon’s biological weapons program is just another part of its giant money-burning machine, or the case may be that it actually does produce a biological weapon now and again, and that 2019-nCoV is the meager result it has so far managed to produce.

Source: http://cluborlov..com/2020/02/a-most-convenient-virus.html?m=1

Now, Mike Pompeo is accusing the Iranians of downplaying & suppressing informations on the actual numbers of the pandemic.

In Ijebu, this is what we call: Asèni Bani Daro.

You're responsible for my troubles & afflictions, and yet you're comforting me by showing deep concerns.

Like I've always said, If you're looking for the most poisonous snakes in the world, do not waste your time & energy in going into the jungle or forest - just visit the "Washington District of Criminals" in Amerika.

Sadly this coronavirus would bring down global economy, it is just few days away. While poor and developing economies are likely to recover and adapt faster, the developed economies would struggle or possibly loose bigger than others. As at today, Italy, Japan and South Korea may find it difficult to recover anytime soon.