In reaction to Iran Supreme Leader's accusation of using coronavirus as a biological weapon against Iran on March 13 the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the "best biological defense would have been to tell the truth to the Iranian people.
The top advisor of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati has tested positive for novel coronavirus, Iranian news outlets reported on March 12.
U.S. officials say retaliatory air strikes were conducted against an Iran-backed militia group operating in Iraq.
Just days after reportedly designating President Hassan Rouhani to head the fight against coronavirus, the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader has called on the country's Armed Forces to help contain the epidemic.
CENTCOM commander testifies in Congress about Iran and the coronovirus in Iran.
The spread of coronavirus in Iran is still an ascending slope and there is no sign of a decline in the number of cases or the death toll.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has included Iran among the twenty worst digital predators in 2020 in a list published to mark this year's World Day Against Cyber-Censorship.
For the first time since 1962 Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding to help it fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which has infected more than 9000 people and claimed hundreds of lives so far.
Speaking in Washington in front of House Appropriations Committee on March 11, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Iran sanctions do not prohibit humanitarian contributions to ease coronavirus pressure on Iran.
In reaction to recent questions raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about Iran's nuclear program the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday that Iran has no obligation to answer questioned based on "empty claims".
Iran's Revolutionary Guard affiliated Fars News Agency on March 21 published a list of senior officials and politicians who have tested positive or died from coronavirus (COVID-19). First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri is included among those who have tested positive and in isolation.
After a lot of criticism that Iran's president Rouhani has been absent from the scene, the Supreme Leader appointed him to head coronavirus task force.
The commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), Marine Corps General Kenneth Franklin "Frank" McKenzie Jr., accused Tehran of threatening free navigation and trade in the Middle East.
The deadly novel coronavirus epidemic will continue to expand in Iran at least until April 8 and then will begin to ebb.
An appeals court in Iran has sentenced a civil rights activist to six years in jail for signing a letter last year asking Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to step down.
Iranian doctors on March 10 called on President Rouhani to reassign the management of the coronavirus crisis to a more authoritative council or take the responsibility himself.
The number of Iranian patients infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) soared during the past day and reached 8,042, and the official death toll climbed to 291.
In a statement on March 9 which marked 13 years since Robert Levinson went missing in Iran's Kish Island, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Iranian government's denial of knowledge of the former FBI agent's whereabouts or condition "defies credibility".
The Wall Street Jounal is reporting that the United States has begun withdrawing troops it deployed to the Middle East after the killing of IRGC commander General Qassem Soleilmani.
The Islamic Republic Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has canceled his Iranian New Year speech in the midst of a serious coronavirus crisis in the country, his office announced on Monday, March 9.
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