Iran took the virus to Lebanon. Jonathan Speyer @JISS_Israel, @JerusalemCenter

Published: March 27, 2020, 3:20 a.m.

Map of Al-Qusayr and its environs. (The Al-Qusayr offensive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qusayr_offensive) was reportedly orchestrated by Soleimani.) Jonathan Speyer, in re: Virus—Covid-19 in Lebanon, Iran, and Syria Jonathan Spyer is a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specializing in the Levant and Iraq. He is  the director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis (MECRA), a Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Strategy and Security and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.  ● https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Irans-failing-response-to-coronavirus-reflects-the-regimes- priorities-621629 ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/iraq-taps-u-s-backed-candidate-as-prime-minister-testing-relations- with-iran-11584458186 ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/giving-iraqs-next-prime-minister- space-to-succeed ● https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-the-situation-in-iraq-policy-implications-for-the-west/ ..  ..  ..   Permissions:   Map of Qusayr, Syria /  Date | 21 May 2013   /  Source  | Contains map data © OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/) contributors, made available under the terms of the Open Database License (ODbL) (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/) .The ODbL does not require any particular license for maps produced from ODbL data; map tiles produced by the OpenStreetMap foundation are licensed under the CC-BY-SA-2.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) , but maps produced by other people may be subject to other licences.  /  Author | Futuretrillionaire (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Futuretrillionaire) Licensing:  I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) license. |   You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work  to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:  attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.  share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses) as the original. (https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-the-situation-in-iraq-policy-implications-for-the-west/)