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Radiofarda – The Iranian capital of Tehran will remain on partial lockdown for an additional week, the city’s Coronavirus Combat Taskforce announced on Thursday, following the reinstatement of COVID-19 restrictions on July 23 after a surge in cases impacted the city. Dr. Alireza Zali, Commander of the Coronavirus Taskforce of Tehran, confirmed that 534 COVID-19 patients were admitted to Tehran …

Radiofarda – The governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnaser Hemmati, advocated for pre-selling oil to domestic buyers as the best way to address the government’s budget deficit in a “healthy manner,” blaming U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports for the deficit. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Hemmati wrote that the government’s choices for remedying the deficit include …

Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking about the contentious Belarusian presidential election and the ensuing police crackdown against peaceful protesters, says that “we want good outcomes for the Belarusian people, and we’ll take actions consistent with that.” Pompeo, who earlier condemned the conduct of the election that handed authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka a sixth-straight term by a …

Radiofarda – Coronavirus’ contamination power has increased by three to nine times in Iran, Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi said on Tuesday, August 11. Speaking in a program of the state-run television, Harirchi said the coronavirus is a complex virus and “has even become more complex [due to mutations] now”. “In addition to complexity, its contamination rate has increased by …

Radiofarda – In a statement on Wednesday, the Society for Iranian Archeology criticized a recent decision of the Cultural Heritage Organization to create a second branch of the National Museum in the opulent mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini. The plan to transfer two to three thousand artifacts from the National Museum of Iran in the center of Tehran to the basement …