the country's most prominent political analysts and a professor at the university of tehran mohammad marandi thank you for joining me on up from thank you for having me you live in terror on a you've watched this crisis unfold over the last few months how bad is the situation there right now on the ground. the situation now is actually a lot better it's stabilized and the numbers are it they do seem to be gradually decreasing initially it was very difficult because the iranians had big problems of painting kits because of the us sanctions we had a shortage of kids but gradually the situation has become better iran has a very powerful world class primary health care network that it established in the 1980 s. in the 1990 s. and it is carrying out through that mechanism active screening both through the phone and online so they've been able to contain the virus despite the many difficulties that were in the path of the healthcare network this forbid in for people to travel outside their provinces so i can't travel outside of tehran universities are close all my classes are online of course not