Response to Tabrizian’s Claims about Coronavirus Vaccine and Homosexuality Tendency

Abbas Tabrizian’s statements about the coronavirus vaccine have prompted reactions from officials at Iran’s Ministry of Health. Tabrizian and his followers had previously recommended the use of “violet oil” and “camel urine” to combat coronavirus.

The name Abbas Tabrizian has long been on the tongues of Iranian media, health and medical centers in the country, as well as media outlets and social networks.

He considers himself the “father of Islamic medicine” and comments on all medical fields: from regrowing severed fingers, prescribing courage medicine, and treating infertility to treating COVID-19.

Tabrizian’s recent statements about the coronavirus vaccine this time prompted a severe reaction from officials of Iran’s Ministry of Health.

Tabrizian’s office, through a Telegram post, claimed that using the coronavirus vaccine is dangerous. In this post, he wrote:

“Do not approach those who are vaccinated because they have microchips and have undergone genetic changes and have stepped outside the realm of being human and act like controlled robots and have lost the genes of faith, morality and honor and have developed a tendency toward homosexuality and have become dangerous creatures.”

Kianosh Jahanpour, head of the Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health, responded to Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian’s statements:

“The ignorant and superstitious statements of this person and the conduct they and those around them display are considered unauthorized interference in treatment, and the prosecutor can address this matter even without complaint, on the grounds of defending public rights.”

“Father of Islamic Medicine” and Legal Prosecution

This is not the first time the Ministry of Health and medical universities have filed complaints against Abbas Tabrizian. Complaints that apparently resulted in his judicial conviction. Actions that have had no effect in countering the statements of the “father of Islamic medicine.”

The Iranian Student News Agency “ISNA” reported in relation to this, quoting Jahanpour: “There is no accurate information about this person’s place of residence, the manner of execution and the fate of previous court sentences.”

There is no specific information about Abbas Tabrizian’s knowledge of Islamic medicine. It is said that this clergyman, who has no university specialization in the field of medical sciences, prescribes and recommends medicines and treatments for various diseases.

From Violet Oil to “Prophet’s Perfume”

On Ayatollah Tabrizian’s page, many medical claims are observed. He has claimed that severed fingers can be revived with honey within two months.

This clergyman owes his fame to a video that was shared and reshared on social networks a few years ago. In this video, he burned one of the world’s reference medical textbooks, “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,” and claimed that the treatment of all diseases is provided for in Islamic medicine, and any disease that Chapter Al-Hamd cannot cure is incurable.

Following the outbreak of the coronavirus, Abbas Tabrizian prescribed and recommended various ways to combat its spread. At one point, he claimed that wearing masks is not mandatory for men and only women can transmit coronavirus.

The “father of Islamic medicine” had said that “transmission from women to men is realized only in case of close contact.” He also once called coronavirus “God’s revenge on Qom” and claimed that because people in Qom had harassed him, God intended to “bring the coronavirus disease” to that city in order to take revenge on them.

The “Islamic medicine” advocated by him to fight coronavirus prescribed other methods as well: from the use of “violet oil” to “camel urine.”

Even one of his students, “Sheikh Morteza Kohnsaal,” had recommended that to treat patients infected with coronavirus, one should rub “Prophet’s perfume” with a finger on their mouth and nose.

Source: DW