۲ TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi appreciated the efforts of some countries sending humanitarian aids to Iran to counter the coronavirus outbreak, saying that Iran never forgets its friends of hardship. In a Saturday tweet, Mousavi wrote, “Following the Twitter & phone calls of @JZarif & the Embassies’ […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted his administration’s vigorous fight against the novel coronavirus despite the heavy pressure of sanctions, warning against attempts at upsetting calm in the society. Rouhani on Saturday held a teleconference with the cabinet members and deputies of the presidential staff and his advisers to coordinate the nationwide plans […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s Health and Treatment Commission deplored the Washington government’s measures to block the Islamic Republic’s efforts to contain the new coronavirus and described the US sanctions on Iran’s medicine sector as nothing but a war crime. Speaking to Tasnim, Akbar Torki decried the US sanctions on Iran’s […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the entire nation to take the novel coronavirus seriously, vowing that the government is working hard to minimize the COVID-19’s tolls on the lives of people. “Everybody must take the issue of coronavirus seriously,” Rouhani said in a weekly cabinet session on Wednesday. There is a consensus […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Wednesday that the number of confirmed cases has climbed to 9,000. Based on the latest reports, in the past 24 hours, 958 new cases were confirmed with the coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 9,000, he said. […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Defense Ministry launched the mass production of advanced thermal cameras used to screen people for the illness caused by the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, as all provinces of the country are struggling with the infectious disease. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country, the defense industry’s experts […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 09 (MNA) – Secretary of Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology Mostafa Ghanei informed on Monday that Iranian knowledge-based companies will put their produced coronavirus test kits to the market next Iranian calendar month, Farvardin (Starting on March 21, 2020). As Ghanei, who is also a member of COVID-19 Scientific […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Minister of Health Saeed Namaki called on medical research and technology teams in his ministry to undertake research into the novel coronavirus that has infected all provinces of the country. Namaki on Monday sent a letter to the Health Ministry’s department of research and technology, urging that the research teams in […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Oil markets crashed more than 30% after the disintegration of the OPEC+ alliance triggered an all-out price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that is likely to have sweeping political and economic consequences. Brent futures suffered the second-largest decline on record in the opening seconds of trading in Asia, behind only the […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov has urged the US officials to refrain from politicizing the IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program. “With all respect to US officials whose status is much higher than mine let’s be honest: attempts to make a big political case from […]