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With a few days left before the beginning of Nowruz holidays, many Iranians have already hit the road around the country, with officials warning of a higher risk of traffic accidents this year due to a likely rise in the number of trips following an easing of the Covid-19 restrictions.

The Iranian vice president for women’s affairs says the US’s unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic have made it highly difficult for the country to pursue many of its medical and pharmaceutical programs.

The spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry has rejected the latest report by the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic.

A member of Iran’s National Taskforce for Fighting Covid-19 has said outpatient cases of the Omicron variant of the disease have sharply decreased.

Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji says Iran has received 100% of its oil revenues and sold crude to countries the US did not even imagine.

Iranian police have arrested the ringleader of a human trafficking racket in the western province of Kurdistan.

A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says Iranian forces will once again respond if Iraq does not dismantle the bases of the Israeli near the order areas.

The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company says the first refinery row of the phase 14 of the South Pars gas project in the Persian Gulf has become operational.

Tehran derby football match between Persepolis and Esteghlal ended in a 1-1 draw on Thursday.

Prime Minister of the Yemeni National Salvation Government Abdul Aziz bin Habtour says the Saudi-led coalition must take three steps before Sana'a can agree to attend a meeting in Riyadh to find a solution to the war.

An Iranian official with energy ministry says, a new survey shows Lake Urmia’s water, in western Iran, has considerably dropped compared to last year.

An Iranian judicial official says a man who beat a woman in a street in the southern city of Dezfoul, Khuzestan Province, faces prosecution.

An Emirati vessel has drowned 30 miles from Asaluyeh Port in southern Iran.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the sum of money received from Britain to settle a historic debt is in Tehran's possession and that the Islamic Republic will decide how to spend it.

The number of Covid deaths keeps declining in Iran. Latest Iranian Health Ministry figures show that 98 people died from the disease from Wednesday to Thursday.

A former Iranian legislator says only a few people in the country are opposed to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

A magnitude-6 quake has hit the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, with regional crisis management chief saying it left no casualties.

Ancient pottery originally unearthed in the western Iranian region of Bookan, has been put on show at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran, after being returned home from Switzerland.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says Iran and the P 4+1 are close to the final point of a deal in the Vienna talks more than any time before, adding Iran is ready for such an agreement if all its red lines are respected.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has denied claims that the country released two British-Iranian citizens in exchange for London paying back its decades-long debt to the Islamic republic.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has said the Islamic Republic’s foremost foreign policy goal is to strengthen friendship with regional countries.

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’s Navy says the missiles of the IRGC are capable of evading electronic warfare.

The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary has confirmed earlier reports of the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri, two British Iranian citizens from prison.

The Iranian Health Ministry said another 109 people have lost their lives to COVID-19 over the past 24 years, down from 117 a day earlier, as the daily death toll from the disease continues to decrease gradually.

People in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan have held a funeral for Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Alavi Gorgani, an Iranian Shia cleric, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 82.