Tehran Times

Coronavirus cases in Iran go past 60,000, death toll at 3,739

TEHRAN- The total number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Iran has reached 60,500, of whom 3,739 have died and 24,236 recovered.
We will defeat coronavirus: Army chief

TEHRAN - Army Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi has said that Iran will defeat the coronavirus.
By Afshin Majlesi

Why Iran expects tourism boom after coronavirus

TEHRAN – The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought travel to a standstill nearly all over the globe, including Iran, causing huge job and revenue losses.
By Samaneh Aboutalebi

Afghan immigrants in “Golshahr” struggle to halt coronavirus pandemic

TEHRAN – The co-producer of “Golshahr”, Mojtaba Ehsani, has said that the documentary portrays the struggles put up by a group of Afghan immigrants in the Golshahr neighborhood in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad to halt the coronavirus pandemic.

Politics

Human Rights Watch urges Washington to lift sanctions on Iran

The Human Rights Watch has urged the United States’ government to ease sanctions on Iran in the coronavirus crisis.
Salehi: Tehran has asked IAEA not to listen to spy agencies run by Iran’s foes

TEHRAN - It is necessary that the International Atomic Energy Agency not to listen to reports presented by spy agencies of countries hostile to Iran, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has said.
Palestine’s Haniyeh expresses solidarity with Iranians in coronavirus fight

TEHRAN - Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)'s Political Bureau, has expressed solidarity with the Iranian people in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Three Italian coaches shortlisted to lead Iran

TEHRAN – Three Italian coaches have been shortlisted to lead Iran national volleyball team.
Nabi officially named FFIRI Secretary General

TEHRAN - Mehdi Mohammad Nabi has been official named as the Secretary General of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) on Monday.
FIFA helps Persepolis to pay their debts

TEHRAN- Persepolis can pay part of their debts through the release of a fraction of their blocked money in FIFA.

Number of e-book readers increasing during home quarantine

TEHRAN – FIDIBO, a major online Iranian store for audio and electronic books, has said e-book readers have significantly increased in number due to the home quarantine enforced following the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
Iranian narrator Bahareh Jahandoost recounts story from her life on intl. storytelling show

TEHRAN – Bahareh Jahandoost from Iran joined some world storytellers in the Bodies of Stories, a worldwide program, on Sunday to tell a true story from her life.
Iranian plays streaming online amid coronavirus pandemic

TEHRAN – Theatergoers need no longer to stay in queues to watch plays in theater halls, they can sit on a couch at home and watch the plays virtually available at the Namayeshnet, the Iranian online theater platform.

Industry minister outlines plans for ‘Surge in Production’

TEHRAN – Iranian industry, mining, and trade minister outlined his ministry’s main programs for supporting the domestic production in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 20), which is named the year of “Surge in Production”, Tasnim news agency reported.
Non-oil GDP growth at 0.9% in last autumn: SCI

TEHRAN- Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) has announced that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), excluding the oil sector, has registered a growth rate of 0.9 percent in the autumn of the past Iranian calendar year, Mehr news agency reported.
South Pars gas field: Crown jewel of Iran’s gas industry

TEHRAN – As the crown jewel of Iran’s energy industry, the giant South Pars gas field (which Iran shares with Qatar in the Persian Gulf) has nearly reached its full potential and Iran’s gas production from the field is said to have surpassed that of the rival Qatar.

COVID-19 crisis: washing hands for 20 seconds, not wasting water for 20 seconds

TEHRAN – These days, it is strictly recommended to wash our hands for 20 seconds as a great step to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but unfortunately many leave the tap running at the same time. This issue poses the greatest threat to the environment.
Medical services free of charge for coronavirus patients in Iran

TEHRAN – Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki has instructed medical university chancellors across the country that medical services for coronavirus patients should be free of charge, IRNA reported on Sunday.
Prophet Muhammad's advice against contagious diseases

TEHRAN – The coronavirus epidemic has made the governments and media to raise public awareness by providing the most accurate tips to prevent disease transmission, while the prophet of Islam, Muhammad (PBUH), had suggested good hygiene and quarantining some 1,400 years ago.

Will the U.S. experience decline or reemerge?

TEHRAN - World War II ended after the United States' forces used mass-destruction weapons for the first time in world history against two Asian cities which left nothing but the mass killing of a vast number of Japanese civilians. The US atomic bombardment of the Japanese cities was a new evil innovation in utilizing science and technology by individual countries to gain more power. The new world order was formed by the US over the globe in 1945.
COVID 19: Comply with court order on Zakzaky; release him now

In the name of Allah Who states “… if anyone saved a life, it will be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land” Quran5:32 Peace and blessings of Allah be upon His noble servant, our master Muhammad (S) and his purified progeny.
Ansurullah calls on Saudi Arabia to consider Yemen’s mediation proposal

Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement has called on the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors to consider its proposal for 12-party mediation aimed at ending the bloody war on the impoverished Arab state.