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Virus outbreak in Iran sickens hundreds, including leaders

by Associated Press
| February 28, 2020 4:30 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After facing sanctions and the risk of war amid tensions with the United States, Iran’s Shiite theocracy now has an enemy in the new coronavirus that infiltrated its leadership in plain view of state-controlled media and despite repeated denials of any looming threat.

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