215: Twenty-five million virus-infected in Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein: @conf_of_pres
Image: Saint Sebastian pleads with Jesus for the life of a gravedigger afflicted by plague during the Plague of Justinian. (Josse Lieferinxe, c. 1497–1499) Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Virus. Anecdotes that the virus has ripped thorough Iran; now Rouhani announces that legislators have been infected, along with 25 million Iranians; may go to 35 million. Regime arrests doctors who gave interviews. Originally, had hundreds of thousands of Chinese studying in Iran. . . . Iranian cyberspies made a selfie video. . . . Zarif in Baghdad; wanted to go to Saudi, but the king is hospitalized. In Baghdad, still upset about death of Soleimani. The largest freshwater lake in Iran—in all of Central Asia—is drying up. Regime acknowledges that it’s lost control, but still funds “adventurism” – proxy wars, et al.