Israel's prime minister reportedly shared a fake video from the Hallmark series 'Pandemic' and claimed it as evidence that Iran was covering up its coronavirus deaths

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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly claimed to have seen a clip of Iranian soldiers dumping dead coronavirus patients into trash piles to conceal the country's actual death toll.
• According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, the clip was from the 2007 Hallmark mini-series "Pandemic," which depicts the spread of a fictional flu pandemic around the world. 
• According to Ravid, Netanyahu's office did not deny the report and said that the clip had been sent to three Cabinet ministers who were told that the clip's authenticity could not be confirmed. 
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly shared a clip from the 2007 Hallmark mini-series "Pandemic" and claimed it as evidence that Iran is concealing its real coronavirus death toll and is dumping dead bodies into trash piles. 

According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, Netanyahu discussed the clip during a conference call with his Cabinet ministers on Monday night, claiming that it showed Iranian soldiers loading coronavirus victims into garbage trucks and disposing of them in a ditch. 

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