The Islamic Republic of Iran Red Crescent Society is set to financially assist two million Iranians who have lost their jobs amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, its acting chief said on Friday, April 3.
Police officers in Iran on Thursday raided a party in a town near the capital and arrested more than a hundred participants on charges of holding a mixed-gender party.
The Commander of Coronavirus Combat Taskforce of Tehran on April 3 warned the authorities that despite a decline in the number of patients in the capital, the situation has yet not reached the degree of stability to allow for discontinuation of social distancing measures.
An Iranian lawmaker says the interior minister rejected his advice to postpone the February 21 parliamentary elections to prevent the quick spread of the coronavirus.
Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani has tested positive for COVID-19, parliament's department of public relations announced in a statement on Thursday, April 2.
The relatives of the 176 victims of the Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran's Revolutionary Guard over Tehran on January 8 have founded an association to seek justice for the death of their loved ones.
Responding to the U.S. President Donald Trump's charge on Wednesday that Iran or its proxies are "planning a sneak attack on U.S. troops or assets in Iraq", Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Thursday said Iran has "friends", not "proxies" .
In a tweet on Wednesday the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said disturbing reports of the involvement of Iranian diplomats in the assassination of an Iran dissident in Turkey are fully consistent with their assignments and called them "agents of terror".
The commander of Iran's Qods Force arrived in Baghdad this week to try and unify Iraq's fractured political leaders.
President Donald Trump has tweeted that Iran or its proxies “are planning a sneak attack on U.S. troops” and has threatened to exact “a very high price,” if it happens.
Human rights activists say that around 20 prisoners were killed on March 30 and 31 during disturbances in two prisons in Ahvaz, the capital of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province.
Kamal Foroughi, an 80-year-old man with dual Iranian-British nationality, has returned to Britain nine years after being arrested in Iran on spying charges.
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