Iranians React Creatively to Coronavirus: From Licking Holy Shrines to American Flag Masks!
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As coronavirus spreads in Iran (news update link), the country's creative citizens have faced the virus in their own ways, depicted in images posted on Iranian media:
Residents of the Capital city, Tehran, known for being fashionable, resorted to creative outfits and masks for protection against the virus. Example of creative Hijab (women's mandatory Islamic modest outfit and head cover) and American flag masks are shown here:
Separately, the non sterile packaging of coronavirus prevention kits in the conservative city of Qom by a group of religious militia women and children (without proper hand protection and sterile garments, and on the floor of a gymnasium, depicted above and below) has been criticized:
In another holy city, i.e., 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.
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