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Iran-HRM – The number of Iranian medical staff who lost their lives to the coronavirus in under equipped hospitals across the country is on the rise. Health workers, including doctors and nurses at the front lines of the fight against the deadly virus, lack basic protective equipment. According to citizen reports from Saqqez, 40 of the nurses and staff of the Khomeini hospital …

Iran-HRM- Iranian security officials have arrested some 150 men and women in three mixed-gender parties during the past days. The state security forces on Monday raided a party in the city of Sirjan and arrested more than a 20 participants on charges of holding a mixed-gender party, the state-run ROKNA news agency reported on Tuesday.Mohsen Nikvarz, the prosecutor of Sirjan …

Radiofarda – Iran’s parliament reconvened on April 7 for the first time since the new coronavirus outbreak forced it to close, as the country reported a drop in new infections for the seventh straight day. More than two-thirds of the legislature’s 290 members gathered in the absence of speaker and veteran politician Ali Larijani, who tested positive for the virus …

VOA – Iran demanded on Wednesday that U.S. oil production levels must be known before an upcoming OPEC meeting with Russia and others seeking to boost global energy prices.   The meeting of the so-called OPEC+ is scheduled to be held Thursday after officials delayed it following Saudi Arabia criticizing Russia over its comments about the price collapse.   A meeting in …

HRANA – Samaneh Norouz Moradi, a political prisoner, returned to Evin Prison on April 5, 2020. Ms. Morouzi is suffering from Lupus and breast infection. Even a doctor prescribed her mastectomy which has not been performed yet. She was granted furlough on March 18, 2020. Her request to extend her furlough was not accepted by Amin Vaziri, the special assistant …