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PayvandNews – Iranian health officials have tried to play down President Hassan Rohani’s estimate that as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of the outbreak. Rohani on July 18 cited a new study by the Health Ministry in offering the unprecedentedly high number of 25 million coronavirus cases. Iran’s population is …

Radiofarda – The Head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization on Sunday said the incident at Natanz nuclear facilities is different from other recent explosions and fires in Iran none of which according to him is “security-related”. Commenting on the recent wildfires and blazes at several power stations, Brigadier-General Gholamreza Jalali said these incidents belong to the “safety” category, not “security” …

Radiofarda – The Security Chief of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan Province on Sunday said all of the individuals that he called “instigators of the protest rally in Behbahan on July 16” have been arrested. Speaking to the government news agency IRNA, Heydar Abbaszadeh said the protest rally was “a transgression”. He claimed that “a handful” of people in Behbahan had rallied …

Radiofarda – Two more mysterious fires in Iran on Sunday, July 19 have once again raised questions about similar recent incidents, including a suspected explosion and fire at the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. Other suspicious events were a large fire at a sensitive military region near Tehran and a shipyard in Bushehr on the Persian Gulf and numerous other …

Radiofarda – In what has been perceived as a victory for the social media campaign against capital punishment in Iran, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled to reconsider the death sentences issued for three young political activists. The trio who are in their twenties are Saeed Tamjidi, Mohammad Rajabi and Amirhossein Moradi, who were arrested for taking part in the …