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January 12, 2021 21:13
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November 16,2020President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday has ordered a widespread lockdown of cities hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak starting next Saturday, as daily infections and deaths are setting new records... -
November 16,2020Twitter has suspended Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh’s page on Monday, following the United States’ recent batch of sanctions targeting Iran’s petroleum industry. -
November 15,2020Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has urged the new American administration to resume honoring the 2015 nuclear deal without any preconditions and make up for losses inflicted on... -
November 15,2020The number of newly-identified coronavirus cases continue to climb in Iran, with the Health Ministry registering a record high of 12,543 daily infections on Sunday. -
November 14,2020Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei extended condolences on the demise of Hojjatoleslam Javad Ejei who died of the coronavirus disease, known as Covid-19, at the age of 72. -
November 14,2020President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said starting next Saturday, his government will impose stricter and localized quarantine measures in Iran to ward off the outbreak. On Nov. 21, all non-... -
November 14,2020Deaths from the Covid-19 epidemic in Iran went past 40,000 on Thursday, as authorities mulled over shutting down cities hit hardest by the virus to give the country’s strained healthcare system... -
November 14,2020The United States’ special representative for Iran claimed on Thursday that a pressure campaign of sanctions targeting Iran would persist into the administration of Joe Biden, even as the president... -
November 11,2020Both coronavirus infections and deaths set new records in Iran on Wednesday, with cases soaring past 11,500, following which members of the National Coronavirus Taskforce said nothing short of a... -
November 10,2020President Hassan Rouhani underlined Iran’s principled policy of strengthening good neighborliness, confidence-building and dialogue with neighboring states. -
November 10,2020Coronavirus infections in Iran topped the 700,000 mark on Tuesday, as the Health Ministry announced ramping up daily testing capacity to 100,000 to prevent the spread of the contagion. -
November 09,2020The daily tally of coronavirus infections set a new record for the third time over the past six days, this time taking the number of cases over 10,400, as the government begins to impose a night... -
November 09,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on regional countries once again to settle their differences through dialogue, especially now that the United States President Donald Trump is... -
November 09,2020United Nations secretary-general’s special representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, who is in Tehran at the head of a delegation, discussed Afghan issues with several Iranian officials on... -
November 09,2020Iran’s policy toward the United States will be developed based on Washington’s measures under its new presidency rather than speculations and media analyses, an Iranian diplomat said. -
November 08,2020President Hassan Rouhani said the United States has an opportunity under the new president to make up for past mistakes, return to global norms and reinforce commitment to international obligations... -
November 08,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed ways of expanding bilateral ties with Bolivia’s President-Elect Luis Arce in La Paz on Saturday. -
November 08,2020Iran reported its largest single-day increase in fatalities caused by Covid-19 on Sunday with 459 deaths, which took the national toll to 38,290, a health official said. -
November 07,2020The National Coronavirus Taskforce on Saturday issued a night curfew on nonessential businesses in areas hit hardest by the coronavirus, as Iran reported its largest single-day spike in daily Covid... -
November 07,2020Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, who is on a three-nation Latin American tour, met high-ranking Cuban officials in Havana on Friday to discuss ways of expanding relations in various sectors. -
November 07,2020President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday expressed his gratitude to the Iranian people for its “significant and unique” resistance and patience over the past three years in the face of the United... -
November 06,2020President Hassan Rouhani said the US administration has not adhered to any human principles, human rights and international laws. -
November 06,2020Iran recorded 8,864 more confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday and the daily death count remained above 400 for the sixth day in a row, health officials said. -
November 04,2020Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei on Wednesday underlined adherence to health protocols amid coronavirus, stressing that there is no certainty over when the pandemic will end. -
November 03,2020Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic’s policies toward the United States are calculated and clear, and will not change with the replacement of...
