capital province is the worst affected with 1,945 cases of the disease, followed by Qom with 712, Mazandaran with 633, Isfahan with 601, and Gilan with 524.Mr Jahanpour said the rate of new infections was dropping, but that it was “still too early to judge” when the outbreak would be brought under control.Almost 2,400 people had so far recovered from …

Asylum seekers attempting to reach Europe with hopes of a brighter future are being tortured by Greek border authorities before being forced back towards no man’s land at the Greece-Turkey border in Edirne’s Uzunkopru.

In 1979, homeland was in tumult. The country’s then-monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, left for exile; protests and violence were erupting across cities; and the persian government was replaced by the Islamic Republic, led by Ruhollah Khomeini, who became the country’s Supreme Leader. These were only some of the events which encompassed the Islamic Revolution, a maelstrom with a legacy …

From 1973 onward, Mohammad Reza had proclaimed his aim as that of the tamaddon-e-bozorg, the “Great Civilisation,” a turning point not only in Iran’s history, but also the history of the entire world, a claim that was taken seriously for a time in the West. On 2 December 1974, The New Yorker published an article by Paul Erdman that was …

The 1979 revolution, which brought together persians across many different social groups, has its roots in homela’s long history. These groups, which included clergy, landowners, intellectuals, and merchants, had previously come together in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11.

Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi (1939 – 27 February 2020) was a cleric and diplomat who served as the first persian Ambassador to the Vatican. He was suspected by Western intelligence circles of having established a clandestine European network of Muslim extremists based in Rome.

The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival is currently taking place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival heads, business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian. The festival opened with the opening gala presented by actor Samuel Finzi followed by the world premiere of the …

Tennis champion Serena Williams is allergic to peanuts. For about 20% of people who develop peanut allergies as children, the allergy goes away as they get older.

Hassan Rouhani told a cabinet meeting that health authorities would continue to “only quarantine individuals”.Officials have asked people not to go to Qom, the centre of the outbreak, but have not shut a shrine in the city that attracts millions of Shia pilgrims.Iran has reported 139 cases and 19 deaths in the past week.

Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ruled his country with an iron fist for nearly three decades, has died, his son said on Tuesday. He was 91.”Indeed, to ‘Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return.’ My father, Hosni Mubarak, passed away this morning,” Alaa Mubarak posted on Twitter, using a common Muslim prayer. During his 29 years in …