Reporters Without Borders (RSF), condemned the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' (IRGC) fearsome Intelligence Organization for summoning and threatening journalists in the clergy-dominated Iran.
Iran's health minister said Sunday that travel from China brought the new virus to the country.
Iran has announced the closure of universities, higher educational institutions and schools in several cities and provinces to reduce the spread of Covid-19 virus.
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced three people arrested in the heat of anti-government protests last November to death.
The Friday prayer leader of the religious city of Qom on Saturday said the U.S. President Donald Trump targeted the city with coronavirus "to damage its culture and honor".
Iran’s currency rial continued to lose value against major currencies on Saturday, reaching as low as 154,000 to the U.S. dollar at one point.
The meetings of Tehran City Council may be cancelled after the mayor of one Tehran's 22 districts was diagnosed with coronavirus on Saturday.
Iranian law enforcement has arrested the chairman of the city council in Lavasan, a posh suburban town near Tehran, according to a tweet by the town’s Friday Prayer Leader.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the opportunity to contain the COVID-19 virus could be coming to an end if countries do not mobilize more quickly.
A Lebanese woman who had arrived from Iran is quarantined in a Beirut hospital for coronavirus screening, Health Minister Hamad Hassan told a news conference on Friday.
Saudi Arabia has intercepted missiles fired towards its cities by Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen, the Riyadh-led military coalition said, in the insurgents' latest cross-border attack.
A global dirty money watchdog on Friday placed Iran on its blacklist after the country failed to comply with international anti-terrorism financing norms.
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