“There is widespread skepticism that Iran is grossly under-reporting the true casualty rate.”
Yes. And Khan has every reason to know that. His congratulating Iran is of a piece with the relentless push we see everywhere: Muslims, we’re told, invented virtually everything that has made life in the contemporary West comfortable. Muslims, our moral superiors constantly insist, established tolerant and pluralistic societies while Europeans were still painting themselves blue and living in caves. In virtually everything, we are told again and again that Muslims are ahead, Muslims were first, Muslims blazed the trail. There is an all-out effort to make Westerners think not just that Islam is another one of the world’s great religions, but that Islam, Islamic culture, Islamic history, and Islamic mores are superior to those of the West. And so why shouldn’t London’s Muslim mayor claim that the Islamic Republic of Iran is ahead of Britain in combating the coronavirus? It’s all part of the ongoing effort to render Britons complacent and ashamed to resist what is being done to their free society in the name of multiculturalism and pluralism.
“London Mayor Silent on Praise for Iran’s Coronavirus Response,” by Potkin Azarmehr, IPT News, April 27, 2020:
An Iranian news outlet reports that London Mayor Sadiq Khan praised Tehran for being “ahead of us in terms of combating the coronavirus. I congratulate the Iranian officials for this.”
The comments reportedly came last Friday in a video call with Tehran Mayor Pirouz Hanachi. In the same conversation, the Tehran Times reports, Khan pledged he will “discuss the problems that Tehran is facing due to sanctions” with British government officials, “and I hope that this is solved in the near future.”
Khan has yet to comment on the report, but the government acknowledges the call took place.
Iran faces crippling economic sanctions imposed by the United States due to its support for terrorism. Britain has urged that those sanctions be eased during the pandemic, but they do not apply to medicine and other humanitarian relief. President Trump has said in his recent press briefings that he will consider helping Iran if they asked. Trump, however, has promised to block a $5 billion emergency loan Iran requested from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), saying Iran will spend the money on sponsoring terror instead of helping its citizens.
Iran has been overwhelmed by coronavirus cases, with more than 90,000 people infected and nearly 6,000 reported dead. There is widespread skepticism that Iran is grossly under-reporting the true casualty rate.
Iran’s regime is desperate to contain the growing public dissent and dissatisfaction towards its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
In March, Iran tried to quell the public’s anxiety with a visit by a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation. It praised Iran’s handling of the situation with statements aired on state television. But those statements were so contrary to the evidence Iranians were witnessing that the exercise backfired….
Press TV, the foreign language arm of Iran’s state television, also reported on Khan’s statement.
“Iran has been doing its utmost to contain the respiratory disease caused by COVID-19 despite the hardships caused by the sanctions,” the Press TV report said.
“Tehran has repeatedly said it does not want Washington’s help in the fight, but wants the White House to lift the illegal economic sanctions so that Iran could mobilize its own resources to tackle the pandemic.”
Multiple pictures of Khan’s call with Hanachi have surfaced, and one brief video clip shows Khan making that statement congratulating Iran for being “ahead of us in terms of combating the coronavirus.”…
Khan, however, refused to give an interview with Manoto TV and set the record straight as to what was said during the video call.
Khan needs to address the Iranian reports. If he believes they misrepresent his words, he can say so. If not, the question is why he went out of his way to praise Iran’s government for a response that clearly failed the Iranian people.
Potkin Azarmehr, is a British investigative journalist and documentary maker based in London who was born in Iran. He regularly contributes to several newspapers and television stations on Iran and Middle East related news. You can follow him @potkazar.
Buraq says
Getting coronavirus in Iran is the fastest way to kick the Khan! Khan’s a khlown!
Lightship Chaplain says
It just goes to show you stupid this whole “white guilt” thing is!!!
mortimer says
Is he for real?
Iran leads only in TAQIYYA. Khan is number two in taqiyya.
Jay says
Khan is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, trying to destroy England’s sovereignty! How do traitors like Khan get elected? Hopefully PM Boris Johnson can save England ! ??
Donovan Nuera says
BoJo has turned out be a wimp after being initially critical of niqabbed women looking like post boxes.
GOLDMANN says
Mr Jay , Johnson ?! He will not close our boarders ?in UK . ?
R Russell says
Jay,
There are 4 countries in the United Kingdom. Are you suggesting the other 3 are to be dismissed so the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom can concentrate on England alone?
Jay says
R. Russell,
Of course not. England gets the most press and I was responding to this article!
I do not think Mr Khan has London’s best interest in mind and his behavior proves it.
I do hope PM Johnson will protect all of the United Kingdom.
Jay says
R Russell. Of course not. England and London get the most press and I was commenting on Khan. I wish PM Johnson the best as he tackles his new job in this new world of insanity and Covid 19. ?
grey says
Boris may need some help from Tommy Robinson and Paul Golding!
George Jarrold says
No he won’t. The EU and most of the West signed up to the Euro/Arab dialogue in the 1970s .it was agreed to Give Islam full rein in the west. Leaving the EU will not mean that the elite have changed their minds about that.
No Muzzies Here says
The UK has no future, except that of Dhimmihood.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
I really fear you are correct.
I should have left this country the day they managed to ban FOX news.
gravenimage says
I had not realized that Britain has banned FOX News. More suicidal censorship.
tim gallagher says
This Muslim mayor, as you would expect, is always going to be pushing the Muslim agenda. I see islam as the clear enemy of our entire western way of living, so this maggot of a mayor is always going to be trying to undermine our western values and promote Islam. However, I suppose the people of London elected this piece of Muslim garbage, so, if that’s what most of them want, then that’s what they get. Maybe it is virtue signalling from those oh, so, urbane and civilised Londoners that put this enemy into office as mayor. Maybe it is a case of showing how wonderfully tolerant they are. I prefer the policy of Hungary where they don’t let Muslims into their country at all so you don’t end up with Muslim mayors or Muslim anything else. But I guess it is way too late for many of our countries to do something as sensible as that.
Jay says
Tim
I admire Hungary as well. I had the honor of visiting Hungary years ago and will always treasure that opportunity . Hungary as well as Poland have closed borders and are protecting their sovereignty and their citizens!
liz says
Well spoken. One only hopes next time Britons won’t foolishly repeat the same mistake. Because these people, deep down are still who they are. They don’t love the West.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, Jay and liz. Jay, I’m sure countries like Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have their faults, but, on their attitude to Islam, they are surely right. Most of our countries (I live in Australia) are on the wrong track by letting Muslims into our borders as migrants. liz, I agree that Muslims definitely don’t love our western way of life. I believe that Islam is 100% incompatible with our way of life. It seems foolish to me to let Muslims into our countries and leads to endless trouble.(terrorist attacks, rape gangs, etc)
gravenimage says
UK: London Mayor Sadiq Khan congratulates Iran for being “ahead of us in terms of combating the coronavirus”
……………….
If by “ahead” he means that Iran is lying about figures where Britain is not, he is right…otherwise, not so much.
“Exclusive: Iran Imprisoning Coronavirus Whistleblowers, State Department Says”
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-lying-about-coronavirus-statistics-state-department-says/
Wellington says
Demonstrating again two verities: 1) The less free a society is, like Iran and China, the greater the likelihood that truth will be a casualty; and 2) Those who adhere to a totalitarian ideology, as Khan most surely does, will parasitically use freedom in a free society (or what’s left of freedom in a once completely free society) to eradicate freedom.
gravenimage says
Right on both accounts Wellington.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
It’s fun for Sadiq to troll sane people now. Isn’t it you skinny terrorist-coddling psycho.
Of course, once Britain is done being remodelled completely in the image of your vile religion, nothing will be fun (or functional… or stable.. or bearable in any way). it will be the exact same kind of primitive violent hellhole such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc are. The ones that your parents ran away from.
You stupid feral self-loathing puke.
gravenimage says
I don’t think Khan is self-loathing–he just hates freedom and the West.
Donovan Nuera says
Maybe Khan would like to expound upon the newest Iranian scientific marvel: the Bipolar Covid Detector that works up to 100′!
gravenimage says
Yes–that the Mullahs’ refer to this gizmo as “bipolar” is unintentionally hilarious.
grey says
“the Bipolar Covid Detector” detects bipolar , what’s wrong with that ? 🙂
Patrick B. Ludwig says
Well, the “West” – particularly the “Empire of Spite” the USofA” – is not really exemplary in combating Covid-19.
Consider Trump. That orange cretin and fool actually advocated injections of disinfectant to combat the virus.
A virus that was – in all probability – engineered and released by his very own minions.
May I remind you that it was Iran and China, the USofA’s declared “arch-enemies” who were first stricken by this plague. What a practical “coincidence”!
At least before the virus got out of control!
I do think that Iran is doing a good job in managing the epidemic with the means she still has available.
Despite the US “sanctions” – a fully fledged attempt at genocide in it’s own right.
The true plague of two centuries are the murderous USofA, not Corona
grey says
Get back on your meds, imbecile.
Wellington says
Seconded.
gravenimage says
“Patrick B. Ludwig” is a regular apologist for Jihad terror and hater of the free West.
This thug has grotesquely claimed elsewhere on Jihad Watch that America likely created the Coronavirus:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/muslim-cleric-says-he-wont-accept-any-coronavirus-cure-from-infidel-united-states#comment-2216335
And yes–the US is very much in the race to develop a Coronavirus vaccine–along with China, Western Europe, and Israel.
Nations *not* in the running, of course, are those in the entire Muslim world. How does this tool explain that?
Lauren Hermann says
PBL,
Thank you for confirming my belief in pro-choice. Your mother should have aborted you; we would all be better off if she had.
Jayell says
Yea verily, for the Great and Mighty Khan of London Town, Counsellor unto the Kings and Rulers of the Earth (especially Donald Trump) hath opened his (even more Great and Mighty) mouth and spoken words of wisdom (or whatever?)) unto the multitudes of the nations – well, maybe to anyone else around the world who hasn’t got anything better to do in the global lock down, because he’s usually a bit slow in talking to the media here in the UK and us lot in London just turn the TV off whenever his face appears with that monotonous voice and its excuses for coherent sentences in what purports to be the English language. We’re just aware of the soaring crime figures in the Capital, whilst a-certain-person-in-City-Hall spends £millions on a cyber-snooping squad in the Met Police, the transport network descends into an unreliable chaos of corona contagion, a much vaunted scheme for affordable housing miraculously never quite appeared and the numbers of homeless on the streets goes through the roof…….It’s wonder that Khan actually wants to beat the Corona virus, because it’s the only reason why he still inhabits City Hall after this year’s election were delayed until next year. Then what will he do? Join the BBC? He might get elected again!! Oh dear, at least you can turn the BBC off.
Billy Bloggs says
He will get reelected via Postal votes from the cousins back inPak & Bangla. Just did the now deposed Lutfur Rahman in Tower Hamlets, who let the Muslim patrol roam the streets.
andrew mckendrick says
London has long suffered Koranavirus and the future does not look good.
Phil Copson says
…and “Kahnovirus”
OLD GUY says
There is ONE thing that Muslims have created “Lying”.
gravenimage says
Oh, they didn’t create it–but it is one of the few things they excel at.
wpm says
Muslims did not invent lying,but after 1400 years have perfected it.Germans ‘make good beer,Italy world,s largest producers of wine ,Japanese good cars,Islam the very creative politically motivated lying.Other” gifts “they have brought to the western world from their 7th century society “grooming gangs”,honor killings,jihad attacks,welfare fraud on industrial scale,no go zones,whats not to love ?Why and how this little piece of excrement keeps getting elected shows how far gone London is.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Keep licking those shrines, and Mosques.
Bon Voyage!
jca reid says
A couple of the main reasons they’re “ahead” of us are:- !) Half the population are kept in Lockdown. Namely, the women, are NOT allowed out. 2) Airline traffic. The numbers of passengers from China must be very low. The Virus got in from people who had been contaminated from other people arriving.
A few days ago there was an article about Iran producing a “CoronaVirus Detector”. 80% success rate at 100 meters. Just came up with it. Nobody believes it. Khan, as London Mayor, is a disgrace & a total failure as Mayor. The only person that takes him seriously is himself.