Sayyid Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani (Persian: سید هاشم بطحایی گلپایگانی; 1941 – 16 March 2020) was an Iranian Shia Ayatollah and representative of the Tehran province in Iran's Assembly of Experts.

Golpayegani claimed that "America is the source of coronavirus, because America went head to head with China and realised it cannot keep up with it economically or militarily.

"[2] On 22 February, Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani announced at a ceremony that he had been infected with COVID-19, but had healed himself using an "Islamic remedy".

[3] On 15 March 2020, the Al Arabiya English reported that he had been infected with coronavirus.

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