Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a former mayor of Tehran and President Hassan Rouhani's main rival in the 2017 presidential elections, was elected as new Speaker of Iran Parliament.
Villagers in the southern Iranian province of Khuzestan province will finally be supplied with drinking water after years of protest, which turned violent in recent days.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says elimination of the Zionist regime of Israel does not translate into the abolishment of the Jewish people, but entails the eviction of aliens and thugs like Netanyahu.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has once again hailed the achievements gained in the fight against the coronavirus saying the country is now on the verge of containing the virus.
The idea of knocking off zeros from countries’ national currencies goes back decades, with some governments removing noughts from banknotes several times to harness inflation.
A senior Iranian military official says If American forces make the slightest encroachment on Iran’s territorial waters, they will be slapped in the face harder than before.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has highlighted the country’s success in dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak, saying the Islamic Republic has begun to export the health supplies necessary for the fight against COVID-19 after meeting the domestic demand.
A senior Iranian official says the coronavirus pandemic will reach its peak in autumn when the influenza virus infection will also reach its zenith after 11 years.
The spokesperson for Iran’s administration has reminded the US government that the international institutions are not its private properties and Washington has no right to veto the International Monetary Fund’s plans for giving Iran a loan.
The spokesman for the Iranian administration Ali Rabiei has warned that a long-term shutdown of businesses amid the outbreak of coronavirus and the government’s non-intervention in the labor market policies could result in the unemployment of more than 4 million people in the country.
Iran says neither the United States, nor any other country in the world, has the power to veto the loan requests of International Monetary Fund (IMF) member states.
In controversial remarks, Iran’s health ministry spokesman has criticized China for its inaccurate reports regarding the coronavirus, saying the initial reports made other countries underestimate the severity of the disease.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani has slammed the US sanctions on health and medical goods, saying sanctions on health items are an illegal and inhumane act and a symbol of Donald Trump's open enmity with the Iranian people.
There is currently no vaccine to prevent the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), so the best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to the virus. Washing the hands and keeping them clean is the first and most important defence.
An Iranian epidemiologist has hailed South Korea’s approach in containing the deadly coronavirus saying by using the isolation policy it managed to stop its spread.
A manager of an Iranian pharmaceutical company describes how the United States’ sanctions against the Islamic Republic have devastated the country’s health sector, especially now that Iran is gripped by the novel coronavirus.
The university students of Iran have sent a shipment of health and medical supplies to people of the United States amid the outbreak of coronavirus that is rapidly spreading through the US.