From the 19th-century clerics warning against "demons" in smallpox vaccines to Khamenei’s ban on Western vaccines over fears of altering "Iranian genes"—the weaponization of state-sponsored superstition remains unchanged.
When Prime Minister Amir Kabir made smallpox inoculation mandatory to save lives, the religious establishment claimed it injected spirits into the blood. Two centuries later, Ali Khamenei invoked the exact same medieval logic to block life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, directly causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths across Iran.
Theocratic rule in Iran has perpetually exploited conspiratorial ignorance to cover systemic failure.
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