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Al-Monitor – As Iranians were preparing to put behind them a bitter year full of sorrowful events, the coronavirus appeared as an unexpected and unwanted guest, destroying their plans to celebrate the Persian new year on March 21. Though the Iranian public expects the government to place cities with high concentrations of coronavirus cases under quarantine, President Hassan Rouhani has refrained from …

Radiofarda – In a surprising admission, Iran’s deputy health minister said Sunday that 26,000 people infected with the coronavirus are currently hospitalized and another 26,000 had the virus who either recovered, discharged or died. That is more than double the official figure announced on the same day. The data presented by Qassem Janbabaei show that since the novel coronavirus outbreak …

Radiofarda – With the COVID-19 epidemic showing no signs of slowing down in Iran, the army on Monday announced a series of steps to show it is playing a notable role in confronting the coronavirus. Admiral Mostafa Maddah, Head of Army Health, and Admiral Habbibollah Sayyari, Deputy Commander of Iran’s regular Army, at a meeting of Bio-Defense Headquarters. March 23, …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader made a claim in his latest speech that left many Iranians baffled, or rather terrorized, that the superstitious man ruling the country with unlimited powers may have lost his faculties. They justly fear that this may inflict even graver calamities on a nation suffering from many hardships, the latest of which is the coronavirus epidemic …

Radiofarda – The Spokeswoman of the U.S. Department of State Morgan Ortagus has strongly refuted Khamenei’s repetition of allegations that the United States created the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) which she referred to as the “Wuhan Virus”. On March 23 in a speech broadcast live to the nation, Khamenei turned down the United States’ offer of help in dealing with the coronavirus …