While statistics indicate a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths in the last two weeks with one in five Iranians having been infected according to a health official, the Revolutionary Guard Commander on Wednesday praised the Supreme Leader for "shining in dealing with coronavirus".
Iran's Central Bank Governor has said that Iran reserves the right to launch legal action against South Korea if the country's banks refuse to unlock billions of dollars of Iran's oil-export money.
The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has praised the country's ruler for his handling of the pandemic, while saying the U.S. is incapable of dealing with the coronavirus.
Speaking online to the Heritage Foundation on June 9, the U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said the United States will continue working to reinstate the arms embargo on Iran.
Within hours from the Judiciary Spokesman's announcement on June 9 of the death sentence of a "collaborator" who informed CIA and Mossad on slain Commander Qassem Soleimani's whereabouts, the Media Center of the Judiciary said the spy case had nothing to do with Soleimani's death.
European Union is opposed to U.S. demand to extend a UN arms embargo against Iran, since it pulled out of the nuclear deal.
Nearly one in five Iranians may have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the country's outbreak started in February, a health official said Tuesday.
Iran's "coronavirus spokesman" has been replaced by the health minister after showing tendencies of being occasionally outspoken.
Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Emaili on Junee 9 said a collaborator who had provided foreign intelligence services with details of movements of Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, has been sentenced to death.
Venezuela has received an air cargo shipment of aid from Iran in another sign that ties between the Islamic republic and the South American country -- both targets of U.S. sanctions -- are strengthening.
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated the list of Iranian ships subject to sanctions on Sunday, June 7.
Congressional Republicans are planning to introduce legislation this week to ensure tougher measures targeting Iran that would add to President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure”.
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