Mosque converted into mask factory in virus-hit Iran

<div><p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/mosque-converted-mask-factory-virus-hit-iran-164837130.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/hWmUOgMIrcxI6DVMKVf_tA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/caded6bea559751342473da3f43df25814824f9a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Mosque converted into mask factory in virus-hit Iran" align="left" title="Mosque converted into mask factory in virus-hit Iran" border="0"></a>At a Tehran mosque converted into a factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against coronavirus. Lined up like factory workers, around 15 women have taken up positions in front of table-top sewing machines to produce face masks. "Our group used to go to the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war every year to serve visitors," Fatemeh Saidi, a 27-year-old woman involved in the Basij with her husband, told AFP.</p><p><br></p></div>

At a Tehran mosque converted into a factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against coronavirus. Lined up like factory workers, around 15 women have taken up positions in front of table-top sewing machines to produce face masks. “Our group used to go to the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war every year to serve visitors,” Fatemeh Saidi, a 27-year-old woman involved in the Basij with her husband, told AFP.