Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has assigned the Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi, to investigate possible hoarding of medical coveralls and protective masks used against Covid-19.
A man who challenged coronavirus health warnings and to make a religious statement licked the grids at a shrine in Iran has been arrested.
Iran's IRGC has come into the streets to fight coronavirus but it is partly a show and partly perhaps preventive in case of popular protests.
In intense clashes taking place in Syria’s Idlib province in recent days 21 members of Iran-backed Afghan and Pakistani militias were killed, Qom News an Iranian website has reported.
As the coronavirus crisis deepens in Iran, the health ministry on March 1 ordered all public hospitals to refrain from admitting any non-emergency patients and prepare to deal with COVID-19 cases.
A female member of Iran’s parliament said on Saturday she contracted the COVID-19 (coronavirus) while attending a session of the legislature.
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been in prison in Iran since April 2016 says she suspect she may have been infected with coronavirus in prison.
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on February 29 discussed the crisis in Syria with his Turkish and Russian counterparts and proposed to host a trilateral meeting in Tehran. Tensions are high between Moscow and Ankara over the fighting in Syria.
As more members of Iran's political elite fall victim to the novel Coronavirus, the contagion appears to be closing in on the household of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Several countries have announced new restrictions affecting travellers from Iran due to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Islamic Republic.
In a letter to the Secretaries of State and Treasury on February 28, Senator Elizabeth Warren raised concerns that U.S. sanctions could hinder humanitarian transactions that would help counter and contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran.
Amid a serious corovairus crisis in Iran an ultra-conservative ayatollah has condemned the government decision to suspend Friday Prayer gatherings, saying it is God’s command.
World Health Organization Director-General on February 28 said a total of 97 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been exported from Iran to 11 countries.
A lawmaker who represents the people of Rasht in northern Iran in the parliament says the real COVID-19 death toll in Iran is far higher than official figures.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States has offered to help with the coronavirus response in Iran.
In a Twitter post on February 28 the Austrian envoy to Tehran said a member of the Austrian delegation that visited Tehran last week and was suspected of COVID-19 (coronavirus) infection has been cleared by medical tests.
An Iranian businessman says the country is basically cut off from international banking as a result of being put on FATF's blacklist.
The Islamic Republic's first ambassador to Vatican, 81-year old cleric Hadi Khosroshahi, has died of coronavirus in Iran, local media reported.
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran have suspended all sports events except football and futsal (soccer) matches in the next ten days due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
An Austrian newspaper on February 27 reported that a member of the Austrian Foreign Ministry delegation that visited Tehran on February 22 has contracted COVID-19 (coronavirus) and been quarantined in a Vienna hospital.
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