TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) – President Hassan Rouhani says the government has no plans to quarantine any city amid the combative efforts to contain the new coronavirus in the country. “There will be no quarantine, not today, not during the New Year holidays [starting on March 20], and the government services will be provided to […]
2 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 (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 […]
2 TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has registered 2,241 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the world in the past day, with 143 of those cases in China, according to the informational bulletin released on Friday. The WHO said that 95,333 cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed globally, with […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh met and held talks with Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva. During the meeting, the two sides discussed further cooperation on Iran’s strategic plan for the control of the coronavirus, […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that people should continue to fight against coronavirus in cooperation with Health Ministry. After planting an apple sapling in Sa’dabad Historical-Cultural Complex in Tehran on Wednesday on the occasion of National Arbour Day and Natural Resources Week, the Iranian president said, “Arbour Day is a […]