(Reuters) – Iranian health officials on Sunday sought to downplay the president’s estimate that some 25 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, saying it was based on serological blood tests that measure exposure to the disease and that it was not You can trust them to show the …
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Iran’s supreme court has agreed to suspend the executions of three men sentenced to death for their participation in anti-government protests in November, whose sentences sparked an online protest last week. The men’s lawyers, Saeed Tamjidi, 26, Mohammad Rajabi, 28 and Amirhossein Moradi, 26, said in a statement on Sunday …
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits Iraq for the first time since the murder. of Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Qassem Soleimani in January. Zarif and his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, emphasized the need for a stable Iraq for the “good of the region” as the top …
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(Reuters) – President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million were at risk of acquiring it, as Iran again imposed restrictions in the capital and elsewhere. FILE PHOTO: An Iranian woman and her son wearing a protective mask …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian security forces fired tear gas on Thursday to disperse protesters gathered in the southwestern city of Behbahan, witnesses told Reuters, and there was a strong presence of forces in other cities. Videos posted on social media from inside Iran showed protesters singing, “Don’t fear, don’t fear, …
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