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  • In the town of Rasht, a funeral procession

  • for a doctor who died of coronavirus.

  • In Qeshm, protesters block a checkpoint because they

  • fear letting in clerics coming from an infected area.

  • And in a cemetery in Qom, a burial is taking place.

  • The man filming provides commentary.

  • Qom is the city

  • where Iran’s first coronavirus cases appeared.

  • Though authorities expressed little concern for days,

  • and now, it appears workers are digging trenches

  • for mass graves.

  • Iran says at least 237 people have died.

  • It’s one of the highest death tolls outside of China.

  • How did this happen?

  • At key moments officials made serious missteps,

  • and failed to take protective measures.

  • On Feb. 19, the first coronavirus deaths

  • are reported in Iran in the religious city of Qom.

  • But victims likely contracted the virus

  • weeks earlier, and in a city full of holy sites

  • the visitors touch and kiss,

  • that could have helped spread it.

  • Iran’s health ministry did ask the city

  • to close the shrines, but it was never enforced.

  • So people continued to visit them.

  • Two days after the deaths in Qom,

  • Iran held nationwide parliamentary elections.

  • But out at polling stations,

  • there was little sign of a nation

  • on the brink of an epidemic.

  • No one was wearing gloves or masks,

  • and there was lots of close contact.

  • Officials tried in the days that

  • followed to calm the public.

  • But their efforts were undercut

  • by bizarre appearances.

  • Here’s Iran’s deputy health minister, Iraj Harirchi,

  • on state TV saying things were under control.

  • But throughout the presser, he was

  • sweating, coughing and dismissing common-sense

  • prevention methods.

  • Harirchi went on TV a second time that day,

  • making jokes about proper coughing protocol.

  • But the next day, Harirchi announced on social media

  • that he, himself, had contracted the virus.

  • This shocking turn of events

  • put Iran’s mismanagement of the epidemic

  • on international display.

  • People in Iran are panicking.”

  • Well, now he’s become part of the story

  • because he’s got the virus.”

  • President Hassan Rouhani then tried to pin the spreading virus

  • on Iran’s enemies.

  • It took officials nine days after the first coronavirus

  • death to cancel Friday prayers, where large groups

  • typically gather.

  • Meanwhile, high-profile cases started appearing.

  • At least 23 lawmakers

  • now have the virus.

  • A vice president announces that she, too,

  • has the coronavirusjust days prior,

  • here she is sitting near President Rouhani.

  • Then on March 1, a close aide of the supreme leader,

  • Ali Khamenei, dies of coronavirus.

  • Shortly after, the government ordered all schools

  • and universities to shut down, and Khamenei

  • tries to rewrite history.

  • Iran is finally putting tougher measures in place.

  • But by letting the virus get out of hand, officials

  • turned their country into an epicenter.

In the town of Rasht, a funeral procession

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