After videos that purport to show people licking holy shrines in the Iranian city of Qom amid a COVID-19 outbreak, an Iranian member of Parliament said they could face prison time or floggings.
The videos, which were posted to social media, showed men licking and kissing a shrine in Qom and one in Mashhad. The Qom man says in the video that “I’m not scared of coronavirus.” The other man says that “the disease can go inside my body and others can visit it with no anxiety.”
