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Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei says US troops will be expelled from Iraq and Syria because ‘even allies abhor the American leaders’ Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran’s leader said on Sunday Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei renewed Iran’s demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East Iran almost got into … Read more
Iran paraded a device this week which it claims can detect coronavirus cases from 100 yards away – but the contraption looks remarkably similar to a fake bomb detection gadget once flogged by a British fraudster. Iranian Revolutionary Guard chief Hossein Salami boasted that ‘local scientists’ had invented the ‘state-of-the-art’ device to detect virus cases ‘remotely’ … Read more
Iran has shut down inter-city travel in its first major crackdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, amid fears of a ‘second wave’ of infections as the death toll surged past 2,000 today. Government spokesman Ali Rabiei announced that ‘new journeys will be banned, leaving towns and cities will be banned’ after many Iranians ignored official … Read more
Iran today called on the United States to lift its sanctions to help contain the coronavirus which Tehran says is killing one person every 10 minutes. President Hassan Rouhani rejected Washington’s offer of humanitarian aid, saying: ‘American leaders are lying. If they want to help Iran, all they need to do is to lift sanctions …. … Read more
A British-Iranian prisoner has revealed how soldiers are wearing worn out masks and no gloves as the Iranian prison system collapses into coronavirus chaos. Anoosheh Ashoori, who is being held in Tehran on spying charges, also said no one checked his temperature when he was moved to a bedbug riddled ward in Evin prison without … Read more
Iran’s uranium stocks are FIVE TIMES the limit agreed under 2015 deal, UN’s nuclear watchdog warns The IAEA said Iran’s stockpile had more than doubled to 2,250lbs since February 2015 deal with world powers allows only a much smaller stockpile of 461lbs The UN nuclear watchdog also demanded ‘clarifications’ over an undeclared site By Tim … Read more
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has said that coronavirus is ‘not that big a deal’ even though the country’s death toll has hit 77 and one of his senior advisers has died of the disease. Khamenei called on Iranians to pray against the virus ‘as prayer can solve many problems.’ As of today, 77 in the country … Read more
Iran’s death toll from coronavirus has jumped by 11 in just a day, bringing the total number of people to have died from the deadly virus to 54. Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur made the announcement on state TV today, as he confirmed the number of those infected has now reached 978. He called on … Read more
Iran’s vice president and spokeswoman for 1979 hostage-takers is infected with coronavirus, state media reveals By Associated Press Published: 14:19 GMT, 27 February 2020 | Updated: 14:27 GMT, 27 February 2020 A state-owned newspaper in Iran says Masoumeh Ebtekar, a vice president in the Islamic Republic and a spokeswoman for the 1979 hostage-takers, has the … Read more
Iran’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 15 today with Iranians running short of masks and testing kits, the regime refusing to seal off the holy city at the centre of the crisis and pilgrims spreading the virus around the Middle East. Even according to official figures, Iran has the worst virus outbreak in the … Read more