I don't believe a word that the Iranian regime says. Not a lot of people do. They lie. The Countries That Are Succeeding at Flattening the Curve "There is also significant doubt about the statistics in Iran, which officially reports 47,593 coronavirus cases and 3,036 deaths as of April 1. The real figures are almost certainly much higher—making Iran a coronavirus epicenter, Maysam Behravesh argues. As cases climbed in China in January, Iranian officials didn’t restrict travel between the countries and apparently delayed announcing an outbreak in the religious city of Qom until after the first COVID-19 deaths. Many high-ranking figures have since died from the virus. Behravesh attributes Iran’s failed response in part to misunderstanding. “Iran’s general neglect of the colossal public health threat posed by the coronavirus also emanates from its fundamental unfamiliarity with the nature of such a peril,” he writes. “After all, the virus isn’t a domestic revolt or foreign intervention aimed at regime change, but a creeping, invisible menace against the whole society that requires a science-centered response.”" https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/0...ttening-curve-coronavirus-testing-quarantine/ God has nothing to do with this.
Look, I do not take it for granted that the statistics are accurate (no statistic is accurate by the way; there is always some bias. This bias can be greater in a country like Iran. But, being a chess player who traveled most of Iran provinces and a relatively well-received translator, and a programmer, a green-movement activist,a relatively religious guy, and an academic activist, with some acquaintances in medical society (I mean I have friends in many walks of life), I don't think there is much bias in the govt. data, even if not accurate. I don't know Meysam Behravesh, but there are some people out there who say the ration of formal to real data is 1:5 and insist on that! I once said those who work in the govt. have no obligation for integrity, but as I said I believe the statistics are doubting but not that far from truth. There are panic people everywhere, and Meysam Behravesh can go wrong too, as I do.