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Radiofarda – Greeting the coming Iranian New Year the Islamic Republic Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has released a video message saying the lesson he has learned from fighting the deadly coronavirus outbreak calls for the need to “reconstruct the system of governance” and to engage in “capacity building” for non-governmental organizations (NGOs.) “Let me honestly tell you that fighting against coronavirus …

RFL/RE – A U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran for allegedly insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and posting private information online has been released on medical furlough. Michael White (right) poses with his mother in Washington in an undated photo. Californian Michael White had been serving a 13-year sentence following his arrest in 2018, the State Department said in …

RFL/RE – As Iran battles the coronavirus epidemic, people across the country have been working to ease the impact of the crisis. Volunteers are distributing food aid to poor families, sterilizing surfaces in public places, and sewing extra face masks for health workers.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Death-row prisoner Alireza Sa’daei was hanged at Zanjan prison on March 11, 2020.  According to IHR sources, Alireza Sa’daei was executed on the morning of Wednesday, March 11, at the central prison of Zanjan city, Iran. He was sentenced to qisas (retribution) for murdering his cousin four years ago. The plaintiff was Alireza’s own paternal …

Al-Monitor – Iranian health officials that the country could be fighting the novel coronavirus for at least another two months, if not longer. The head of the Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi, said March 18 that while some officials have claimed that Iran has reached the peak of the epidemic, he does not believe it. He …