Iran on Sunday said it will restrict travel to the cities hit hardest by the novel coronavirus, state TV said, amid a record high of daily Covid-19 deaths.
A member of the Scientific Committee of Iran's National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters, Majid Mokhtari, says the COVID-19 pandemic is a "grave" issue that addition to quarantine may require "martial law."
The Deputy Director of the National Nursing Organization, Mohammad Sharifi Moqaddam, says the increase in Iran's COVID-19-related death toll is due to an "insufficient number of nurses" in the country's hospitals.
A prominent Islamic Revolutionary turned dissident, Abolfazl Qadyani, says Iran's political establishment is an "authoritarian regime" that has blocked all roads towards reforming the country.
Weddings, wakes and conferences will be banned in the Iranian capital until further notice as the Middle East’s hardest-hit nation battles a third wave of COVID-19, police said on Saturday.
On Friday, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry accused Washington of acting like "Pirates of the Caribbean" following the U.S. government's seizure of Iranian gasoline for Venezuela.
U.S. officials said late Friday that the Iranian hackers behind a wave of threatening emails sent to thousands of Americans earlier this month successfully accessed voter data.
An Instagram page in French affiliated with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was suspended for several hours on October 30 following the Iranian leader’s message to French youth, in which he equated denying the Holocaust with perceived insults against Prophet Muhammad.
The Deputy Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, Mehrdad Jamal Arvanqi, says 200,000 tons of rice stored at Iranian customs and ports is currently rotting for lack of hard currencies.
The United States says it has seized a variety of missiles that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force shipped to Yemen and announced the sale of Iranian oil it seized in August before it reached Venezuela, saying the proceeds will benefit victims of terrorism.
The head of Iran's state-run radio and television agency, Abdul-Ali Aliaskari, called on Tuesday for the prosecution of Persian-speaking channels abroad, targeting130 channels in Persian and 140 channels with ethnic Iranian accents.
Here's a roundup of COVID-19 developments in RFE/RL's broadcast regions.
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