Sheikh Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, a Sunni Islamic scholar based in Zehdan, Iran, said in a video that was uploaded to abdolhamid.net on March 13, 2020 that COVID-19 came to Qom, Iran and subsequently spread to the rest of the country through Chinese students of religion at the state-funded Al-Mustafa International University, a Shiite institution where he said Sunnis are being brainwashed and which he said does things that are inconsistent with the Islamic Revolution’s goals of unifying the Islamic nation. He also said that some students at Al-Mustafa International University are forbidden from returning to their countries of origin.

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