Iranian OPEC governor who fell into a two-week coma after suffering brain haemorrhage dies aged 68 Veteran politician Hossein Kazempour-Ardebili said to have died this morning Iran’s oil ministry announced the 68-year-old’s death in a short statement He was in a coma in a Tehran hospital for two weeks after a brain haemorrhage Fellow ministers paid … Read more
An Iranian airline fuelled the Middle East’s coronavirus crisis by flying infected passengers into Lebanon and Iraq and continuing flights to China, an investigation has found. Mahan Air, a private company linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is accused of lying about these passenger flights after Tehran barred all flights to China on … Read more
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had instructed the U.S. Navy to fire on any Iranian ships that harass it at sea, a week after 11 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came dangerously close to U.S. ships in the Gulf. ‘I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down … Read more
Medics find coronavirus in the lungs of Iranian woman, 30, even though she had no symptoms of the deadly virus Medics in Tehran discovered the coronavirus in the lungs of a woman, 30 She did not display symptoms of the disease but demanded a CT scan to check Doctors say it is being ‘increasingly recognised’ … Read more
The hostage with a hidden pistol. The terrorist toying with a grenade pin. The SAS who thought it was a wind-up. And Mr Nibbles, the hamster at the heart of it all. Forty years on, a gripping account of the Iranian embassy siege — minute by nerve-shredding minute … Day one: Wednesday, April 30, 1980 … Read more
An Angelina Jolie ‘Zombie’ lookalike is said to be on a ventilator in Iran after she fell ill with coronavirus while in prison for her activity on Instagram. Social media star Sahar Tabar, 22, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, from Tehran, shot to prominence after posting images of her eerily gaunt face. But the 22-year-old, whose … Read more
Iranian government minister accuses US or creating a ‘special version’ of coronavirus to target his country – as he blasts UK for blocking sale of masks due to sanctions Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly declared that he thinks the United States may have created ‘a special version’ of the diseased to kill Iranians A … Read more
103-year-old Iranian woman ‘makes full recovery’ from coronavirus after being in hospital for a week The unnamed 103-year-old had been hospitalised in the central city of Semnan The hospital said she was discharged yesterday ‘after making a full recovery’ Iran has been one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19 with almost 1,000 deaths Coronavirus … Read more
British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from Iranian prison today as part of prisoner release. The 42-year-old was among thousands of prisoners temporarily released from jail by the government in Tehran because of the coronavirus outbreak, her husband said. She serving a five-year prison term in Tehran for sedition after being arrested in April … Read more
Footage claiming to show rows of body bags filled with people killed by the coronavirus in Iran has been shared online, amid fears the country is hiding the true extent of the disease outbreak. The country’s first vice president has reportedly been struck by the disease, which is also affecting eight per cent of Iran’s MPs … Read more