President Hassan Rouhani insists on ending the coronavirus-related restrictions and advocates resumption of economic activities in opposition to the Health Ministry which has kept warning that the deadly virus outbreak cannot be controlled and overcome without such restrictions.
The coronavirus pandemic for many may be a global health crisis but for some in Iran it is the White Death, a sign of the imminence of the Day of Judgement.
A top anti-coronavirus official in Iran's capital warned the epidemic is getting worse in Tehran as government officies and businesses reopen.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a speech on Thursday said the coronavirus situation should not cause distraction from "enemy plots".
In an online press conference from Cairo on April 7 Dr. Richard Brennan, WHO's Regional Emergency Director, said WHO has seen a flattening off of the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Iran in recent days.
An official publication of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday called on authorities to take measures to placate China for the "irresponsible statements" of a health official who has questioned China's honesty about the dimensions of its coronavirus epidemic.
Two more high-ranking officials of the Iranian Health Ministry and Coronavirus Combat Taskforce have joined the ministry spokesman in criticizing the misleading data that China has presented to the world about its coronavirus epidemic.
A remark by Iran's Health Ministry Spokesman on Sunday calling China's coronavirus figures and reports "a bitter joke" has led to a diplomatic and political uproar.
Thousands of illegal substance users who have been released from Iran's rehabilitation centers due to coronavirus.
Heavy traffic in Tehran on the first working day of the new Iranian year has prompted some officials to warn about a second wave of coronavirus infections hitting the capital.
Iran Human Rights (IHR) on March 31 reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out at least 280 death penalties in 2019 including at least four juvenile offenders.
An official of Tehran Municipality on Monday said the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic has increased hospital and municipal waste in Tehran by at least 20 and 2000 metric tons respectively per day in the past two weeks.
With 144 more deaths in one day, the total officially confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran jumped by 2,926 on March 27.
Speaking on the side-lines of a meeting of cabinet ministers and President Rouhani on March 25, Iran's Central Bank (CBI) Governor said that part of Iran's frozen assets may be released soon to enable the country to deal with the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic.
Iran's Supreme Leader made a claim in his latest speech that has left many Iranians baffled, or rather terrorized, that the superstitious man ruling the country with unlimited powers may have lost his faculties.
Two groups of religious vigilantes on Monday tried to force their way into important shrines in Iran that were closed to the public as a measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Videos of Iranian health workers in their coronavirus protective suits dancing in hospitals flooded social media timelines recently and now taking their cue from Italians in quarantine, people in Tehran neighborhood have begun playing music at night and singing to it from their windows.
Chief of The Greater Tehran Intelligence and Public Security Police on Monday said five individuals whose funny video clips made with special effects showing eggplants (aubergines) raining down from the sky in Tehran have been arrested. The video clips went viral on Iran social media on Sunday.
By gathering data from dispersed official comments by provincial authorities and local news agencies Radio Farda has been able to confirm that at least 1300 have so far died of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The extent of the coronavirus epidemic in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city, has forced the clerical establishment to shut its revered shrine.
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