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The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought roundly condemned the planned desecration of the Holy Quran by extremists in Sweden, calling on relevant global and domestic institutions to bring the perpetrators to justice under existing laws.
According to the Tuesday announcement of Iran’s Health Ministry, the coronavirus outbreak has claimed 23 more lives over the past 24 hours taking the total deaths to 140,877.
Gargee’an, or qarqee’an, is the name of a popular ritual among Arabs in Iran’s Khouzestan and Hormozgan, and in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia (Ahsa and Qatif), and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman has strongly condemned the sacrilege of the Holy Quran by a Danish politician in one of Sweden’s cities, saying the Swedish government must be held accountable for the insulting act.
A virologist at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in the Iranian capital Tehran has called for a campaign of vaccinations, especially among students, as the new Omicron XE variant of the coronavirus takes hold globally.
The 29th edition of the International Holy Quran Exhibition began in Tehran on Saturday with the presence of Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili.
Two football legends of Germany and two famous football referees have attended the inauguration ceremony of a prestigious Iranian sports center, the Meta Fitness Club.
The vice-president of the Iranian Football Federation has been reportedly arrested by Iranian Intelligence Ministry agents in connection with a cryptocurrency scam.
The downward trend in Covid deaths and infections is holding in Iran where Health Ministry figures show 23 people died of the disease in the past 24 hours.
A commercial aircraft carrying 161 passengers from the Turkish city of Istanbul to Iran’s northwestern Tabriz City had to reroute to another destination due to strong winds in the Iranian city.
Iran’s Health Ministry is warning that the number of cities declared as coronavirus red zones with very high risk of transmission of the disase is going up.
A high-ranking Iranian cleric says the recent stabbing attack in the city of Mashhad, which killed two clerics and wounded another, was an act of sedition by Iran’s enemies and meant to drive Iran and Afghanistan apart.
Video footage has appeared of an Iranian teacher cutting tufts of hair on the heads of several students with a pair of scissors, causing an outpouring of anger and criticism.
The Iranian Health Ministry said on Friday 1994 people have tested positive for Covid-19 and 33 individuals lost their lives to the respiratory disease over the past day.
A senior Iranian health official says some 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been stored in the country. Deputy Health Minister Kamal Heidari said another 80 million doses will be imported in the current Iranian year, too.