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The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Thursday said Iran would destroy American warships if they threaten Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf.

The warning came one day after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered conditional military strikes against Iranian vessels following a recent tense encounter between the two countries in the Gulf.

“I have ordered our naval forces to destroy any American terrorist force in the Persian Gulf that threatens the security of Iran's military or non-military ships,” Major General Hossein Salami said on Iranian state television. “Security of the Persian Gulf is part of Iran's strategic priorities.”

Trump tweeted Wednesday he had “instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” But he said later he was not amending the U.S. military’s rules of engagement.

Days before Trump’s conditional order, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said its forces were conducting drills in the Gulf when they faced “unprofessional and provocative actions” from U.S. warships last week.
But a video released by the U.S. Navy shows small Iranian fast boats coming close to the American warships.

On Thursday, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, who represents American interests in the country, over the recent tensions between Tehran and Washington.

U.S.-Iranian tensions have escalated since 2018, when Trump pulled out of Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with six world powers and reenacted damaging economic sanctions.

Tensions were significantly heightened in early January when a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. Iran retaliated six days later by firing missiles at Iraqi bases where U.S. troops were stationed.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter Thursday, saying Trump should concentrate on protecting U.S. military personnel from the coronavirus pandemic.

"The U.S. military is hit by over 5,000 #COVID-19 infections. ...Also, U.S. forces have no business 7,000 miles away from home, provoking our sailors off our OWN Persian Gulf shores," Zarif said.

Hours before Trump’s warning on Wednesday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched the country’s first military satellite into orbit after several failed attempts.
The launch sparked renewed objections from the U.S. over Iran’s satellite program, maintaining it is being used to develop ballistic missiles that could be armed with nuclear warheads.

Iran has insisted its nuclear program is only for civilian purposes.


https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/iran-threatens-destroy-us-warships-persian-gulf?

ekestic1976:
Where was this money before now? So it takes the Virus to teach one of our Governors compassion?

But if he didnt pay it, you cant still do nothing..

dermmy:
Mr Trump is confused at the moment. Pressure is on him to do something about the corona vurus that has brought America to its knees so he just need to distract Americans from the important issue the way he tried to distract the public from his impeachment trial by ordering a military strike on Iranian general.

Bullshit, well I dont expect less from you, u have always be anti US/Trump and Israel .
this is not first time Trump will threatened iran, anytime iran do rubbish, this is not about distraction. When Trump kill Suleiman the Iran Revolutionary guards General why dont u call it it distraction. That US is battling Corona that dozent mean Trump should kip quiet when rogue iran is harassing US ship..

camsyross:
Lie lie dey smell..

someone is jealous, but who caress

me and Neighbour daughter kemi, we ve being have sex romp since this lockdown, Her parent were in lockdown in Ondo, so dey cant travel bk to Lagos. all we do is Eat, Fuckkkkk, sleep, fu**k, eat, watch movie, Bleep, eat...She don pack all thier food stuffs come my place with my own join. na flex we dey. as I dey type so we just f***k finish

Why all palliative and any other benefits always start from kastina

FECOSON:
This virus is not deadly as people think the most deadly part of it is the spreading, lack of materials/equipments

The rate people contract this virus is more than the recovery rate and that's why it's killing people like tomorrow no dey.

Reasons: imaging having 30 beds, 15 ventilators, 10 testing machines, 12 doctors, 15 nurses, 37 suspected daily cases, 43 serious cases out of the 97 confirmed cases in one isolation center. Just imaging

And they will be managing on their on jeje oooo, one so called prominent politician will be rush to the centre and with just a call from above someone else bed, ventilator care will be sacrificed and the next day a death report from the isolation center.

For the medic staffs may God give them the heart to bear seeing innocent person dyeing while the useless ones recovers.

Whether you believe in God or not one thing is for sure that within every man's heart there is a SUPREME BEING who is all powerful and he is powerful enough to do all things.

At time like this
Pls let us channel all our hopes, prayers and petition to that BEING

Advice: pray, believe and trust in God ask for mercy and do your best to abide to the rules given and leave the rest for God, forget the conspiracy first.

For those that are angry with God telling themselves that they don't believe in him while their conceits is still telling them that THERE IS GOD, this is what you need to do tell yourself that your immune is capable of handling the virus and help your immune by taking class of warm water/hot tea & warm bath morning and evening take enough vitamin c & fruits daily and follow the instructions given by the authorities and don't wish someone else the virus or death and you will be safe.

My prayer is that you will live and see the end of this virus.

You are not far from the truth....May God help us

FECOSON:
This virus is not deadly as people think the most deadly part of it is the spreading, lack of materials/equipments

The rate people contract this virus is more than the recovery rate and that's why it's killing people like tomorrow no dey.
[b]
Reasons: imaging having 30 beds, 15 ventilators, 10 testing machines, 12 doctors, 15 nurses, 37 suspected daily cases, 43 serious cases out of the 97 confirmed cases in one isolation center. Just imaging

And they will be managing on their on jeje oooo, one so called prominent politician will be rush to the centre and with just a call from above someone else bed, ventilator care will be sacrificed and the ne[/b]xt day a death report from the isolation center.

For the medic staffs may God give them the heart to bear seeing innocent person dyeing while the useless ones recovers.

Whether you believe in God or not one thing is for sure that within every man's heart there is a SUPREME BEING who is all powerful and he is powerful enough to do all things.

At time like this
Pls let us channel all our hopes, prayers and petition to that BEING

Advice: pray, believe and trust in God ask for mercy and do your best to abide to the rules given and leave the rest for God, forget the conspiracy first.

For those that are angry with God telling themselves that they don't believe in him while their conceits is still telling them that THERE IS GOD, this is what you need to do tell yourself that your immune is capable of handling the virus and help your immune by taking class of warm water/hot tea & warm bath morning and evening take enough vitamin c & fruits daily and follow the instructions given by the authorities and don't wish someone else the virus or death and you will be safe.

My prayer is that you will live and see the end of this virus.

You are not far from the truth....May God help us

nawa oo

Faky pastor

chai, that man deserve a medal

y cant u guys just stay home, do ur worshipping in ur house, will u die if una go church for one month?

Earthking77:
o Ye men of little faith

If you want to test that ur big faith you have, go to Italy or Spain, let see how that ur faith will save you

Join on us live Apostolic faith church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7WuLkhELo

G

chai, see wetin China have cause

haleymoon:
Big olodo, does two wrongs make a right, they treated Nigerians the way ur parents treat u. Your daft type will come here lamenting and advocating for racism but if the Chinese finally produce the vaccine, u go open ur big fat, smelling, stinking mouth to accept the vaccine. your balls should infact be fried and given to the Chinese to eat for another disease to come through .. mumu

you are nothing but a stupid, good for nothing Chinese Ass licker, No wonder dey treat you like poo both in ur country and theirs. oponu

haleymoon:
Hmmm, very very irresponsible and insensitive of them to show their ignorance and display of racism on an unimaginable scale.

racism ki u there, Do you how this useless Chinese cand other oyinbo country treated Nigerians and other Africans during Ebola crisis?

Officialgarri:
Monumental failure

If not that wailers suffer dementia, no one will object if we suggest Jonathan be whipped daily. Obasanjo and Jonathan's deeds is still what we suffer till date.

e

Dont panik,The aliens are around, dey are here to say Hi

This what my country should have done, but lifeless and his crew refused, now tsunami is coming

g

nice one..

landmark86:
Where are others now? Obasanjo Otedola Adenuga Saraki Tinubu etc

Tinubu will contribute during election period

alienvirus:
[s]Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said

"If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place."[/s]

If mankind had adhered to this advice, the whole world won't be in this mess. Yet, it is the solution adopted by everyone.

For those that are not happy that the message was from the noblest of mankind, you can do yourself a good by kissing a high tension.

#PEPPPERDEM

You dont need a prophet tell u this, common sense should do

That is my Governor

While Pakistan’s government and military are at odds over how to respond, doctors are protesting to get equipment and more testing, and clerics are refusing to limit mosque gatherings.



By Zia ur-Rehman, Maria Abi-Habib and
Ihsanullah Tipu Mehsud
Photographs by Saiyna Bashir



March 26, 2020, 4:17 a.m. ET
KARACHI, Pakistan — Doctors are refusing to show up for work. Clerics are refusing to close their mosques. And despite orders to stay at home, children continue to pack streets across Pakistan to play cricket, their parents unwilling to quarantine them in crowded homes.
Pakistan is facing its biggest challenge ever: how to mobilize its broken state as the number of coronavirus cases rapidly spreads in the world’s fifth most populous country.
More than ever, the epidemic is showcasing weaknesses in the government, and the tensions between it and the country’s powerful military. Many within the country’s clerical establishment have refused to help, rejecting calls to limit mosque gatherings and bringing together at least 150,000 clerics from around the world this month in a religious gathering that helped spread the virus.
By Thursday afternoon, Pakistan’s cases had risen to 1,098, up from some 250 a week ago. Eight deaths have been reported. But many fear that the real numbers are much higher because of a lack of testing and, in some cases, suppressed information.
Already, Pakistan was struggling to provide electricity, water and adequate health care to its 220 million people. Diseases that have been controlled elsewhere, like rabies and polio, still persist here.
In recent weeks, as the coronavirus’s march across the globe was intensifying, Prime Minister Imran Khan played down its dangers. Pakistani officials bragged that the country was virus-free, but little was being done to set up testing anywhere.
Mr. Khan rejected calls from health care workers and provincial officials to enforce a lockdown, saying it would ruin the economy. Instead he urged citizens to practice social distancing and ordered everyone back to work, many returning to the sweltering, cramped factories that are the backbone of the economy.
Finally, the military stepped in on Sunday and sidelined Mr. Khan, working with provincial governments to deploy across the country and enforce a lockdown. They erected a maze of military checkpoints in cities like Karachi and sent baton-wielding police to violently disperse crowds.
But the action may be too late. Doctors and nurses are refusing to come to work, fed up with the weak initial response to contain the virus’s spread


And the extremist clerics who often heckle or march against the civilian government, with the tacit approval of the military, are refusing to help. They largely ignored Mr. Khan’s call to limit Friday prayer gatherings. And even after the military deployed to try to enforce a lockdown, several clerics made videos that went viral in recent days, urging Pakistanis to come back to the mosques for prayers.
To avoid Friday prayers in the mosque would only invite God’s wrath at a time when they need his mercy, the clerics warned.
“We cannot skip Friday prayers because of fears of coronavirus,” said Shabbir Chand, a trader who attended packed Friday prayers in Karachi, the country’s biggest city. “Instead, we should gather in even larger numbers in mosques to pray to God to protect us from this fatal disease.”
A gathering of more than 150,000 people was held this month on the outskirts of Lahore by Tablighi Jamaat, one of the world’s largest proselytizing groups. The event was eventually called off at the urging of officials, but the participants had already come, sleeping and eating in close quarters.
The gathering proved a perfect transmission point, infecting indeterminate numbers of Pakistanis, at least two Kyrgyz citizens and two Palestinians who flew home and introduced the virus to the Gaza Strip. A similar gathering of Tablighi Jamaat in Malaysia infected more than 620 participants who then returned to dozens of countries across Southeast Asia.
In Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, doctors and nurses at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, known as PIMS, who were tasked with screening coronavirus patients threatened to walk off the job this week if the government didn’t provide them with basic equipment like masks and gloves, which they only received on Saturday.
In one case at the hospital, government officials who had tested a woman who died at the hospital after showing symptoms of the coronavirus disease, Covid-19, refused to share the results of the test with doctors and nurses there and told them not to talk to the journalists about it, they said.
The state has always been too impoverished to provide masks to the doctors and nurses at the emergency rooms of public hospitals, and they have always bought their own. But prices are surging as civilians hoard whatever they can, forcing emergency room doctors at PIMS to spend $70 of their $460 monthly salary on masks, some said.
While many of his colleagues called in sick this week, refusing to work as the virus surges, one doctor said he would continue to scrub in every day.
“We have no other way. We just can’t think about it. If we don’t fight it, who will?” the doctor said, adding that morale was low among his colleagues. “So we tell each other, ‘Our profession is sanctified from god. God will protect us.’ But those are just words.”
If the virus spreads much further, Pakistan’s entire health care system may melt down. In Karachi, a port city of some 20 million, there are only 600 beds in intensive care wards. There are 1,700 ventilators across the country, and last week, there were only 15,000 N95 masks for doctors and nurses, officials said.
“We don’t even have anti-rabies vaccines. How can we deal with thousands of people who will come here for coronavirus treatment?” said one doctor at a state-run hospital, who also complained that they had not been issued protective gear. As a government employee the doctor had been barred from talking to the media, and requested anonymity to express concerns.
In February, it became clear Pakistan was facing a major outbreak of coronavirus, as the disease surged in Iran, which quickly became an epicenter. Thousands of Pakistanis visit Iran every month for work or religious pilgrimage, and the countries share a long border.
Officials closed the border, but hundreds of Pakistanis managed to get back in anyway, either rerouting through Afghanistan to cross the border there, or bribing guards to get back in, witnesses and officials said.
In order to prevent thousands more from illegally crossing, officials decided to quarantine them in Taftan, a border town. But conditions were so bad — cramped and filthy, with the virus spreading quickly — that people being held there rioted, burning part of the camp down.
“We had no proper food, no screening of anyone for coronavirus,” said Syed Haider Ali, a student who had been quarantined at Taftan.
“It was not an attack on the camp, but an attempt to rescue ourselves from the animal-like treatment we were receiving,” he said. “We appealed to the government to treat us like humans, but it fell on deaf ears.”
The government kept some 4,600 people under a 14-day quarantine in Taftan and let most go after they developed no symptoms. They returned to their villages and cities across Pakistan, where dozens turned out to have been infected when they tested by local health-care workers.
Now the government is trying to build more quarantine centers, but they keep coming under attack by residents who live nearby and do not want the risk of another botched government operation.
In Karachi, military checkpoints have been erected every few hundred yards throughout the city and the police make rounds to enforce a lockdown, wielding batons to beat people back into their homes.
But in the slums, a carnival-like atmosphere has burst out onto the streets, with schools shut down and children playing in the narrow alleyways that are lined with open sewers. During a recent visit by journalists, the police swept through the neighborhood, yelling at people to get back indoors. But residents ignored them, and, outnumbered, the officers soon gave up.
Janangir Baloch, who lives with dozens of family members in a cramped three-story building, pointed at the children playing in the street as he explained why keeping them home was a lost cause.
“Tell me how I can observe social distancing when I live with 40 other people,”


Zia ur-Rehman reported from Karachi, Pakistan; Maria Abi-Habib from New Delhi; and Ihsanullah Tipu Mehsud from Islamabad, Pakistan. Salman Masood contributed reporting from Islamabad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/world/asia/pakistan-coronavirus-tablighi-jamaat.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR2-ikl9IJjRL42u0xGlfS2qef1r_-PcdstT5WhfsC4J_VrDV88JygR0CqM

time to promote new aboki directors

Abba kyari, ti ru igi oyin, o ti fi ori ja le agbon

Davash222:
The meeting was attended by 16 out of the 20 governors of the ruling party, including Babagana Zulum (Borno), Babajide Sanwo Olu (Lagos), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Godwin Obaseki (Edo), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (Kwara), Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa), Mohammed Sani (Niger) and Simon Lalong (Plateau). Others were Rotimi Akeredolu ( Ondo), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Adegboyega Oyetola (Osun), Aminu Masari (Katsina), Hope Uzodinma(Imo) and Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe)



Thy will be done oh God!!

Someone said Abba Kyari is our freedom fighter. We will mould him here in IMO State to honour him.

lolz...

Akure mi