By Pooya Stone

An Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to 18 years in prison amid the coronavirus outbreak on bogus national security charges designed to punish political activists.

By Jubin Katiraie

Dozens of people have been killed and injured in the horrific floods that are spreading across 19 Iranian provinces and causing gave damage to areas already hit hard by the government’s 40 years of neglect.

By Pooya Stone

After the emergence of the novel coronavirus in China, many states adopted pre-emptive measures to protect their nations against the disease. Due to the Iran-China partnership, the Iranian government not only rejected any precautionary actions but also continued its flights to/from this country and kept the people in the dark about the spread of COVID-19 in Iran until the death of two patients in Qom on February 19.

By Jubin Katiraie

On March 22, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei blamed the United States for the coronavirus outbreak in the country. He tried to excuse his system from the severe consequences of the virus by resorting to an “unconfirmed claim,” as he said, about the U.S. as the producer of COVID-19.

by Pooya Stone

Iran’s best-case scenario for coronavirus (COVID-19) predicts a death toll of 12,000, but the worst-case means that 3.5 million people could die, according to outcomes forecast by an Iranian student research group.

By Jubin Katiraie

Dozens of health workers in Iran’s under-equipped hospitals have died after contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19) because they do not have basic protective equipment, like masks and gloves.

by Pooya Stone

On 22 March the official website of the MSF wrote that: “The international medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), sent a 50-bed inflatable hospital and an emergency team of nine people to Isfahan, the second-worst affected province in Iran, to increase hospital capacity for treating patients critically ill from coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19.”

By Jubin Katiraie

Even though the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading across Iran, killing thousands and infecting many more, the employees of several large factories are being forced to go to work.

by Pooya Stone

Eleven people have died because of floods in Iran’s southern provinces, which are creating another humanitarian crisis as the coronavirus outbreak continues to devastate the country as a whole.

By Jubin Katiraie

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had called 2019 a year of the boom in production, and in the message of Nowruz 2020, he claimed this was correct.

By Jubin Katiraie

Twenty-one Nobel Laureates have written to the United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding the Iranian authorities‘ concealment of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak there, which has killed thousands of Iranians.

by Pooya Stone

Iranian government’s nuclear weapons-producing organization, headed by Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Brigadier General Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi, is continuing to operate, so United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced new sanctions last week.

By Jubin Katiraie

Due to Iranian authorities’ imprudence and incompetence, many of the people are under the danger of infection with the coronavirus.

by Pooya Stone

As the number of people dying because of the coronavirus and the death rate grows in Iran, international organizations report mortality rates more than five times as high as those provided by the regime.

By Jubin Katiraie

The latest reports from Iran indicate that more than 8,200 people have died after contracting Coronavirus in Iran. The Iranian government, since the very start of the outbreak, has been negligent and has refused to deal with the problem head-on.  

By Jubin Katiraie

Every year, Persian-language speakers including the Iranian people celebrate Nowruz as the beginning of the Persian new year.