I'm sorry but I'm finding it very difficult to see how this isn't straight up propaganda from the BBC.
>The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found.
This is false. There is a very important distinction between confirmed deaths due to coronavirus, and deaths of people who may have shown some coronavirus symptoms. One is clearly an undercount, one is clearly an overcount and they aren't measuring the same thing. So to publish on your state broadcaster a story deliberately mis-representing that fact is a bad move.
The data even shows that the confirmed coronavirus deaths track proportionately to suspected coronavirus deaths - actually showing that it's highly unlikely that the numbers are being manipulated.
If you go here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ the UK government gives the exact same measure that Iran uses as their official number.
>The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found.
This is false. There is a very important distinction between confirmed deaths due to coronavirus, and deaths of people who may have shown some coronavirus symptoms. One is clearly an undercount, one is clearly an overcount and they aren't measuring the same thing. So to publish on your state broadcaster a story deliberately mis-representing that fact is a bad move.
The data even shows that the confirmed coronavirus deaths track proportionately to suspected coronavirus deaths - actually showing that it's highly unlikely that the numbers are being manipulated.
If you go here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ the UK government gives the exact same measure that Iran uses as their official number.