A Coronavirus Patient Dies in Gilan Hospital After Clergyman Rubs Concoction on Patients Lips
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com:
Morteza Kohansal, a shia cleric active in Traditional Islamic Medicine may be indicted by Iran's Judiciary after entering, without any mask or protection, a hospital in Gilan province treating coronavirus patients and rubbing, using his unprotected fingers, a concoction called Imam Kazem Cure based on rose water, on patients' lips and faces to heal them. A day later, one of the touched patients died which has caused outrage in Iran because the hospital security did not block his entrance due to the influence of powerful Ayatollahs in Iran. In fact, Ayatollah Tabrizian has defended Kohansal and pressured the Islamic Judiciary to avoid the indictment.
Earlier this week, a video of Ayatollah Bathaei, a senior Iranian cleric and a powerful member of Iran's Leadership Selection Council, claiming he was cured of infection with coronavirus after drinking a solution of holy dirt and soil from Imam Hussein's Karbala shrine drew criticism inside Iran (news link) because he died of his infections shortly after claiming he was cured.
In the video, the Ayatollah says to be cured with the holy dirt "One just needs to be a believer (faithful), otherwise Coronavirus is nothing to be afraid of."
When asked about the video and the curing powers of holy dirt from Iraq, another Ayatollah (Andalib Hamedani) says the success of the cure is case-by-case and dependent on God's mercy and wisdom only.
Recently, in the holy city of Mashhad, a fanatical religious man who licked Imam Reza shrine to prove Imam protects him from coronavirus was arrested. Similar videos have been posted by devout religious worshippers in other holy Shia shrines in Iran.
For several weeks, government and Health officials in Iran were defied by powerful religious authorities who are against closing holy shrines or quarantining Qom, the holy city from which coronavirus spread to the rest of the country. Coronavirus is now expected to infect 30% of the country's population and military has been put in charge.
Earlier this week, even after some holy shrines were closed to the public to prevent spread of coronavirus, a group of religious worshippers broke into the shrines.
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