Al-Monitor – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed Iranians for the first time since March 22, which marked the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz. In his live speech today, on the occasion of the birth of Imam Mahdi, Khamenei spoke about the country’s efforts to combat the coronavirus. Khamenei said that the efforts of health care workers who worked through the …

Al-Monitor – Amid fears that the coronavirus could be running rampant throughout Iran’s jails, another UK resident has been released temporarily from the country’s most notorious prison. “Aras Amiri who has been unjustly imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison since 2018 … has been temporarily released on furlough,” Amnesty International UK board director Daren Nair tweeted today. “The Iranian authorities must let her …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a speech on Thursday said the coronavirus situation should not cause distraction from “enemy plots”. “The [world] arrogance is an enemy of the principle of the Islamic Republic. What some people think – that they will not be hostile if we do not show hostility – is not a sound judgement,” the …

Radiofarda – A team of American experts says it has uncovered a previously unknown Islamic Republic nuclear weapons development site in Iran. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) called on Tehran on April 8 to acknowledge the previously undisclosed site to international inspectors. Founded in 1993, the Institute for Science and International Security is led by former United …

Radiofarda – Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Governor says Luxembourg has unfrozen 1.6 billion dollars of Iran’s assets despite an attempt by victims of terror to get the funds as compensation. Abdolnasser Hemmati said on Wednesday, April 8, Tehran thwarted Washington’s efforts to seize and transfer the CBI’s funds out of Europe. However, the case mentioned by Hemmati is related …

Radiofarda – The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), Ali Akbar Salehi, said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities were continuing despite the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country. “A new generation of centrifuges would soon come online at the Natanz fuel enrichment plant”, Salehi said. Speaking to the monopolized state-run national television, Salehi once again maintained …

Radiofarda – In a press conference April 7 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said with the measures that the United States has taken, Iran will have less and less money to spend on its proxies such as the Hezbollah of Lebanon and Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq. In response to a reporter who asked how he can counter the message …

Radiofarda – A newspaper close to the Rouhani administration says a large number of nurses in Iran have lost their jobs during February, March and April as the income of private hospitals have been declining. Oddly enough, this is happening while the coronavirus outbreak is escalating in Iran according to Health Ministry officials, and President Hassan Rouhani resists continued restrictions …

Radiofarda – The scientific basis of medicine can be traced to Hippocrates’ rejection of disease as having a divine origin. His work has been dismissed before – by the feudal kings of fourteenth century Europe – and is repudiated again today by elements of the Iranian regime. Long forgotten leaders of church and state once directed people toward prayer to …

Radiofarda – 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. Kianush Jahanpur, Spokesman of Iran’s Health Ministry on April 5 called China’s reports of the coronavirus epidemic “a bitter joke” …