Iran accuses foreign media of using virus to ‘discourage’ voters
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a polling station. Iran held its parliamentary elections on Friday. – EPA pic, February 23, 2020.
SUPREME leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today accused foreign media of trying to use a deadly outbreak of coronavirus in Iran to “discourage” people from voting in a general election. “This negative propaganda began a few months ago and grew larger approaching the election and in the past two days, under the pretext of an illness and a virus, their media did not miss the slightest opportunity to discourage people from voting,” said Khamenei.
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