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Coronavirus Kills the "Butcher" of Tehran
(Israel Hayom) Netta Bar - Senior Iranian official Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, 71, has been killed by the coronavirus, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported Wednesday. Abolghasemi was an intelligence officer and battalion commander in the Basij - the paramilitary wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Websites affiliated with Iran's exiled opposition celebrated Abolghasemi's death, calling him a "butcher" and a "hangman" due to the role of the Basij in brutally suppressing popular countrywide protests over the past year.