Iran was also at the tail end of 4-year, 3-sided war that killed around 2M people. The very fact that there's 1.5M people (!) leeway in the numbers tells you so

Iran was also at the tail end of 4-year, 3-sided war that killed around 2M people. The very fact that there's 1.5M people (!) leeway in the numbers tells you something about the state the country was in, and how difficult it is to attribute those deaths specifically to one thing like the flu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Campaign