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Iran executes man convicted of spying for U.S., Israel

An Iranian convicted of spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday, according to Iran’s official IRIB news agency. Last month, the judiciary said Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, who was arrested in 2018, had spied on former…

188 deaths, 2166 new cases of coronavirus in Iran

The death toll from the new epidemic of Coronavirus in Iran on Saturday exceeded the 270,000, with health authorities recording more than 2.1,000 new cases of the epidemic in the past 24 hours. The Ministry of Health announced the…

25 million Iranians infected with COVID-19, Rouhani says

On Saturday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it. The figures, which Rouhani said were based on a new Health…

Iran vows to ‘deal decisively’ with further protests

On Friday, Iran promised to deal “decisively” with further protests over economic hardship, a day after security forces fired teargas to disperse demonstrators in the southwestern city of Behbahan. In a statement on Friday, the police…