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Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/03/iran-doctors-without-borders-msf-coronavirus.html
Iran Tells "Doctors Without Borders" to Leave Despite Worsening Epidemic
(Al-Monitor) A team of nine doctors deployed to Iran by international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is expected to head back home without even starting its relief operations aimed at containing the coronavirus outbreak. It is not clear whether MSF's donated medical items were turned back as well. Earlier this week, two shipments of medical supplies arrived from France. The MSF team, comprised of nine emergency and intensive care unit medical doctors and logisticians, was planning to set up a 50-bed inflatable field hospital in Isfahan, one of Iran's worst-affected areas. "Expelling MSF will be a decision based on wisdom because their presence is a cover for nonhumanitarian activities," said Hossein Shariatmadari, a close aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. "The question is why our officials allowed the group to enter in the first place."