[custom_adv] Arsha Aghdasi is known for his work on Dying of the Light (2014), Sara and Ayda (2017) and The Oath (2019). He died on August 5, 2021 in Lebanon. [custom_adv] He has been interested in sport since he was a kid. After some years, he learnt aikido and he could achieve his sport coaching certification. Following to his success, he received a sport scholarship from Italy; however, his familiarity with Peyman Abadi caused to stay in Iran. [custom_adv] He became the host of TV program named «Aboatash». Furthermore, he became the coach of Peyman Abadi's stunting courses and the first Iranian coach of bungee jumping and wind tunnel classes. [custom_adv] Finally, Arsha created 13 Stunt team on February2, 2007 and continued his activities in Iran and other countries. «Jamshid Arya»'s short film had been the first experience by him which had been made in a day to praise Jamshid Hashempour, the Iranian action actor and shown in Fajr Festival . This short film won an honors diploma in JIFF(Jaipur International Film Festival). [custom_adv] In January, the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned the purchase of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines made in the U.S. and U.K. Khamenei claimed that Americans wanted to "test the vaccines on other nations," without providing any evidence or reasons to back up his claim. [custom_adv] However, in a televised speech on Wednesday, with the country now experiencing a fifth wave coronavirus infections, Khamenei indicated a potential change in heart with the onset of the more transmissible delta variant. [custom_adv] "Corona vaccines must be accessible for all people from any possible way, be it domestic production or through importing," he said. "As the disease or the enemy takes on a new form, so should our defense." [custom_adv] Disappointed by the response of their own officials, many Iranians have criticized the government on social media. Users have posted tweets, photos and videos to document the situation in hospitals across the country, using the hashtag #SOSIran. Users ask the international community to pay attention to the situation in Iran and address the Islamic Republic officials to stop the ban on importing vaccines. [custom_adv] "It was an ideological approach to a health issue from the beginning," Sarvenaz, an Iranian psychiatrist whose full name cannot be published for security reasons, told ABC News. [custom_adv] "It was a gesture to show that the Islamic Republic won't import medical products from a country it has been calling the Great Satan and its biggest enemy. But it has cost thousands of lives." [custom_adv] The COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, released by WHO on August 10, said that the South-East Asia Region reported over 799,000 new cases, a five per cent decrease as compared to the previous week, however, several countries in the Region continue to report increasing trends, including Sri Lanka and Thailand (26 per cent and 20 per cent increases, respectively). [custom_adv] The health ministry on Wednesday said 536 more Iranians died over the past 24 hours as it recorded 42,541 cases amid a fifth major wave of infections, this time defined by the highly contagious Delta variant. Since February 2020, more than 95,000 people have died from the disease. [custom_adv] Early last week, his close friend, actor Javad Hashemi, announced his illness and asked people to pray for him.Soleimani studied theater at a Tehran university and began his career in theater as a property master in 1992. [custom_adv] He began his acting career on stage with director Kiumars Moradi’s “Morning Doesn’t Dawn” in 1994, made his debut in cinema shortly afterwards with “Bon Voyage!”, a comedy by actor and director Dariush Moaddabian. [custom_adv] The following year, he appeared in the war drama “Journey to Chazzabeh” directed by Rasul Mollaqolipur who also cast him in a role for his “The Poisonous Mushroom” in 2002. [custom_adv] He also played a role in director Bahram Beizai’s 2001 neo-noir “Killing Mad Dogs”, which became a box-office hit.Director Hamid Nematollah’s comedy drama “Penniless”, Ali Vaziri’s “A Span of Heaven” are also among his films. [custom_adv] He made his last appearance in cinema with Bahram Tavakkoli’s acclaimed war film “The Lost Strait” in 2018.Soleimani played roles in over 20 theatrical productions, including “You’re the Beloved of Us” by Mehrdad Rayani-Makhsus, “Gate of the Watches” by Javad Hashemi and “Waiting for the Hangman” by Hossein Kiani. [custom_adv] He also directed several plays, including “A Man in the Mirror”, which was staged at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall in 2018.Several directors such as Hassan Fathi and Asghar Farhadi worked with Soleimani in their TV series made for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. [custom_adv] Farhadi hired him for his 2000 TV series “Tale of a City”, which indirectly featured social problems facing Iranian society by way of the assignments that were given to a group of reporters working for a TV program named “Dar Shahr”. [custom_adv] Soleimani was also praised by critics for his portrayal of a Muslim cleric in the fourth season of the popular TV series “Paytakht” (“Capital” 2015) by director Sirus Moqaddam.Soleimani is survived by his wife Soheila Javadi and daughter Saba. [custom_adv] The COVID-19 pandemic in Iran is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 19 February 2020, Iran reported its first confirmed cases of infections in Qom. [custom_adv] The virus may have been brought to the country by a merchant from Qom who had travelled to China.In response to the coronavirus the government cancelled public events and Friday prayers; closed schools, universities, shopping centres, bazaars, and holy shrines; and banned festival celebrations. [custom_adv] Economic measures were also announced to help families and businesses, and the pandemic is credited with compelling the government to make an unprecedented request for an emergency loan of five billion US dollars from the International Monetary Fund. [custom_adv] The government initially rejected plans to quarantine entire cities and areas, and heavy traffic between cities continued ahead of Nowruz, despite the government's intention to limit travel. [custom_adv] The government later announced a ban on travel between cities following an increase in the number of new cases. Government restrictions were gradually eased starting in April. [custom_adv] The number of new cases fell to a low on 2 May, but increased again in May as restrictions were eased, with a new peak of cases reported on 4 June,[9] and new peaks in the number of deaths reported in July. [custom_adv] Despite the increase, the Iranian government stated that it had no option but to keep the economy open; the economy of Iran was already affected by US sanctions, and its GDP fell by a further 15% due to the COVID-19 pandemic by June 2020. [custom_adv] Some early outside estimates of the numbers of COVID-19 deaths are much higher than those from government sources, while the People's Mujahedin of Iran has consistently claimed a much higher death toll. [custom_adv] Leaked data suggest that 42,000 people had died with COVID-19 symptoms by 20 July compared to 14,405 reported that date. The government has also been accused of cover-ups, censorship, and mismanagement. [custom_adv] However, the World Health Organization says that it has not seen problems with Iran's reported figures, although a WHO official later said that due to limited testing in the early months, the number of cases reported in Iran may represent only about 20% of the real number until more tests could be conducted.
