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Radiofarda – China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has called for a new forum to defuse tensions in the Middle East after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart where he reiterated Beijing’s support for Tehran. Wang and Javid Zarif also reaffirmed their commitment to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, according to the Chinese foreign ministry, an implicit rebuke of …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, says Washington’s policy of maximum pressure on Tehran is designed to change Iran’s “regime.” The Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, added that U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran’s banking system aims at “starving people of Iran.” Quoting Ravanchi on Friday, October 9, the state-run Mehr News Agency (MNA) …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s nuclear chief and former foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi has tested positive for coronavirus, state media reported on Sunday. Read more: Where Russia, Turkey, Iran stand in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict Salehi, who heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), tested positive for coronavirus on October 3, the official IRNA news agency reported citing a press release …

Al-Arabia – Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, a top economist and adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, said he has tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. Nobakht, an Iranian vice president and the head of the country’s Planning and Budget Organization, tweeted that his overall health is “favorable,” but added that he is currently hospitalized for further examination. Coronavirus has infected and …

Radiofarda – The Iranian rial fell to a new low against the U.S. dollar on Saturday as the economy reels under pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. sanctions. The dollar was selling for as much as 304,300 rials on the unofficial market, up from 295,940 on Friday, according to the foreign exchange site Bonbast.com. The economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad’s website …