Iran opens up as economic woes trump virus infection fears
AP | NASSER KARIMI: Iran on Monday began opening intercity highways and major shopping centers to stimulate its sanctions-choked economy, gambling that…
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Business as usual in Iran as malls, bazaars reopen amid coronavirus
Reuters | Parisa Hafezi: Shopping malls and bazaars reopened in Iran on Monday despite warnings by some health officials that a new…
Gold market to reopen today
Financial Tribune – Iran’s gold market will reopen on Monday following a month-long hiatus due to restrictions ordered by the government on…
Iran death toll from new coronavirus outbreak rises by 91 to 5,209 – health ministry official
Reuters – The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran reached 5,209 on Monday with 91 deaths in the past twenty…
Iran’s top banker urges IMF to resist US pressure as loan request lingers
Press TV – Iran’s Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should approve Tehran’s request for a loan without…
Trump would be willing to give coronavirus aid to Iran if asked
Reuters – U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he would be willing to provide aid to Iran to help deal with the…
Public transport commuters surge as businesses reopen in Tehran
Financial Tribune – As more businesses reopen in Tehran, the number of subway commuters will surge and undermine social distancing A s…
Iran: Following the spread of coronavirus 600,000 file for unemployment
Financial Tribune – About 600,000 of people have filed for unemployment because of the coronavirus pandemic over the past 20 days, says…
Coronavirus cases in Iran’s Gilan province on decline: Official
Tasnim – The number of people contracting the novel coronavirus in Iran’s northern province of Gilan is on a downward trend, an…
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe waiting to hear if she must return to prison
The Guardian | Jedidajah Otte: Spokesperson said on TV her release would be extended but British-Iranian yet to be told Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe…
Tehran low-risk shops reopen
Financial Tribune – As per the Smart Distancing Initiative, low-risk businesses were allowed to resume activities on April 11 in all provinces,…
US should stop interfering in affairs of other nations: Zarif
MNA – In reaction to Donald Trump’s remark, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the US should stop interfering in…
Iranian Speaker praises China for help in coronavirus battle
Tasnim – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani hailed China’s success in containing the novel coronavirus and applauded the Asian country for assisting…
Kuwait expresses solidarity with Iran in coronavirus fight
Tasnim – Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Marzouq al-Ghanim expressed his country’s solidarity with Iran in dealing with the novel coronavirus…
Leader issues fatwa on fasting in Ramadan amid pandemic
MNA – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has answered a question regarding the fasting during the coronavirus outbreak.…
Iran’s new coronavirus death toll rises by 87 to 5,118 – health official
Reuters – Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus has risen by 87 to 5,118, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in…
Health ministry receives budget to fight coronavirus
IRNA – A high-ranking official of Iran’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday that the Planning and Budget Organization has provided the…
Iran extends prisoner furloughs, closure of holy sites amid coronavirus
Reuters – Iran has extended furloughs for prisoners for another month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, as the Islamic Republic…
Iran’s nurses are martyrs to Trump’s maximum pressure
Bourse and Bazaar | Negar Mortazavi: Narjes Khanalizadeh was a 25-year-old nurse in Gilan, a province along the Caspian Sea in northern…
Pandemic reveals Iran’s online-learning challenges
Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: In response to Iran’s coronavirus outbreak in late February, one of the government’s first actions was to close…
Warning over another COVID-19 peak in Autumn
Financial Tribune – A senior health official says the current strategy of Iran, like many other countries, is to lower COVID-19 cases…
Transatlantic call to ease humanitarian trade with Iran due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Iran Review – A bipartisan group of two dozen American and European national security leaders issue a joint statement urging the US…
‘Zombie Angelina Jolie’ reportedly catches COVID-19 in Iranian prison, is put on ventilator
Sputnik – In October, Iranian Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand, generally known to the public as a “Zombie” version of Angelina Jolie, was…
Iran’s IRGC doubles down on claims of coronavirus detection machine
Al-Monitor – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it has invented a device that can detect a person infected with the…
Iran lets some Tehran businesses reopen after virus lockdown
AP | NASSER KARIMI: Iran allowed some businesses in the capital and nearby towns to re-open Saturday after weeks of lockdown aimed…
AEOI assisting with coronavirus fight
Tasnim – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) is helping the country’s medical society in the battle with the coronavirus, a…
Coronavirus removes anti-terrorism mask off US sanctions’ face: Gov’t spox
IRNA – Government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Saturday that coronavirus pandemic disclosed the reality of the US sanctions and removed the…
President of Iranian seminaries sends letter to Int’l religious leaders
Tasnim – In a letter to fifty religious leaders across the world, the president of the theological schools of Iran expressed the…
Iran unveils 6 high-tech products in anti-coronavirus field
Press TV – The Iranian administration has unveiled six products in the field of diagnosing, screening and combating the new coronavirus, as…
People’s coop. behind reduced COVID-19 spread in provinces: Rouhani
MNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that evaluations on the implementation of the Smart Social Distancing plan in provinces nationwide for…
Iran’s new coronavirus total death toll rises to 5,031 – health official
Reuters – Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 73 in the previous 24 hours to reach 5,031 on Saturday,…
Iran identifies COVID-19 genome sequencing data for first time
Press TV – The head of Iran’s Biotechnology Society says Iranian researchers have managed to identify the COVID-19 genome sequencing for the…
Iran on brink of containing virus in most provinces: Health Minister
Press TV – Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki has said that Iran is on the brink of containing the COVID-19 outbreak in…
Iran’s coronavirus death toll rises by 89 to 4,958 – health ministry
Reuters – Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 89 in the past 24 hours to reach 4,958 on Friday,…
Iran’s virus detection device proves its scientific capacity: IRGC spokesman
Press TV – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s spokesman hails the scientific prowess of Iranian experts in developing a smart technology…
Iran celebrates National Army Day with medical service parades
Tasnim – Instead of holding military parades to celebrate the Army Day and the Ground Force Day, the Iranian military units held…
Irans Auto Sector: Coronavirus pandemic, sanctions
Financial Tribune – Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Iran’s automotive industry will only survive if the government once again places it on life…
Iran’s military says it can detect coronavirus with magnetic fields
The National Interest | Matthew Petti: The Iranian military unveiled a scientifically-dubious device on Wednesday that could allegedly detect the novel coronavirus…
Worst-case report: 75% of Iranians may contract coronavirus
Al-Monitor – In a grim estimate, a prestigious Tehran-based research center found that up to 75% of the Iranian population could test…
Coronavirus: National Museum of Iran hailed by online visitors
Iran Review – Art-and-history lovers welcomed an initiative launched by the National Museum of Iran to facilitate online visits during the Persian…