Iran's clerics and revolutionary guards have launched campaigns to appear to help coronavirus patients and take care of the dead as an attempt to regain their popularity.
After weeks of delays the Iranian government has offered workers a relatively small salary adjustment, which is half of the country’s 41 percent inflation rate.
A top anti-coronavirus official in Iran's capital warned the epidemic is getting worse in Tehran as government officies and businesses reopen.
An official publication of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday called on authorities to take measures to placate China for the "irresponsible statements" of a health official who has questioned China's honesty about the dimensions of its coronavirus epidemic.
The Iranian parliament (Majles) rejected an emergency bill for a one-month nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
Two more high-ranking officials of the Iranian Health Ministry and Coronavirus Combat Taskforce have joined the ministry spokesman in criticizing the misleading data that China has presented to the world about its coronavirus epidemic.
Iranian Parliament' Research Center has warned that the government's delay in extending financial support to low-income people hit by the coronavirus outbreak may entail "painful consequences."
A remark by Iran's Health Ministry Spokesman on Sunday calling China's coronavirus figures and reports "a bitter joke" has led to a diplomatic and political uproar.
The quandary facing Iran’s government regarding a lockdown to contain Covid-19 or resuming business activities continues in full-force, as President Hassan Rouhani and some of his ministers fear a long, drawn-out economic shutdown.
After Qassem Soleimani's killing in January, the new commander of the Qods Force has not been able to project the same influence his predecessor had.
President Donald Trump says the United States would think about the issue of sanctions to help Iran fight the coronavirus if Tehran asked for it.
President Hassan Rouhani says U.S. sanctions have not curbed Iran's ability to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak. Meanwhile, for the first time he acknowledged that there is no end in sight for the current crisis.
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