Iran said Friday that coronavirus has killed 149 more people in the Islamic republic, raising the country's official death toll from the disease to 1,433.
As the new year started in Iran, the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addressed his domestic audience about setbacks in the past year, trying to instill some optimism, but he refrained from his fiery attacks on the United States.
Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif has called for "reconstructing the system of governance" and support NGOs.
Iran starts a new year Friday morning March 20, as it leaves behind one of its worst years ever.
Iran summoned Hungary's Ambassador to Tehran to protest what it described as "mistreatment of fifteen Iranian students by the police and medical personnel in a hospital.
Five former health ministers in Iran have urged the government to limit inter-city travel and close non-essential businesses in order to reduce the pace of coronavirus infections in the country.
With 149 new deaths in the past 24 hours, Iran's death toll from coronavirus (COVID-19) rose to 1,284 on March 19.
On Thursday the Spokesman of Iran's Judiciary said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will pardon about 10,000 prisoners "more than half of who are serving security-related jail terms".
On March 18 the President of Iran Medical Council said that the number of people infected by coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran is "definitely" much higher than what the country's Ministry of Health announces.
In a message for the Iranian New Year (Nowrouz) that falls on March 21, the exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi says he considers the Islamic Republic the "primary impediment in remediation and containing the [coronavirus] crisis".
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced the son of former Chief Commander of the Iranian Army to ten years in jail for corruption.
Iran's death toll from the coronavirus has reached 1,135, with 147 deaths over the past 24 hours -- the highest 24-hour rise yet -- state TV reported on March 18.
The Chairman of Iran's Society of Zoroastrians has said that coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted the small Zoroastrian community in Yazd very hard with a fatality rate much higher than the general population.
Despite the deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the Islamic Republic Judiciary has refused to release four jailed Iranian Christians on bail.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has asked the international community to reject U.S. economic sanctions against his country amid a deadly coronavirus epidemic.
An Iranian environmentalist behind bars in Tehran's notorious Evin prison is suspected of having contracted coronavirus and taken to Taleqani hospital, his sister disclosed in a tweet.
Iranian worshipers visiting holy shrines in Qom and Mashhad tried to force their way inside after they were barred from entering. The shrines and several others were ordered closed in the latest measure to try to control the spread of coronavirus.
Prominent Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh is on hunger strike to protest keeping political prisoners behind bars during coronavirus epidemic.
The chaotic situation of coronavirus information dissemination in Iran has given rise to many controversies as the performance of Iran's state-run TV has invited criticism.
With 125 more fatalities over the past 24 hours Iran's death toll from coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 988 on March 17. The figure only shows deaths from coronavirus confirmed by testing but observers believe the death toll is much higher, even as much as five-fold.
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