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Iran plans cash handouts to 23 million households amid virus surge
Apr 07, 2020 19:20The Iranian government plans a one-off cash handout of 10 million rials (nearly $240 at official currency rate) to more than 23 million households in the country as part of efforts to help people cope with the economic impacts of the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Iran needs no charity from US, only wants bans lifted amid virus crisis: Zarif
Apr 07, 2020 17:43Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran, as a resource-rich nation, needs no charity from US President Donald Trump in its battle against a coronavirus pandemic, calling Washington instead to stop standing in the way of Tehran’s oil sales and banking transactions.
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Iran dominates West Asia’s renewable power capacity
Apr 07, 2020 15:33Iran dominated the West Asia’s renewable production capacity which rose 13 percent to 22,710 megawatts (MW) last year, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says.
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$50 million saved in Iran through localization of 30 medicines
Apr 07, 2020 14:42Authorities say some $50 million has been saved through a new scheme for production at home of 30 medicines that used to be imported into the country from abroad.
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Iran-made coronavirus test kits, ventilators, anti-viral masks to hit market
Apr 07, 2020 11:48An Iranian university researcher says domestically-developed coronavirus diagnostic test kits, light-weight ventilators and virus-killing facemasks will soon enter the mass-production stage.
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Mosques converted into factories as Iran fights coronavirus
Apr 07, 2020 10:36At a Tehran mosque converted into factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against the coronavirus.
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Iran draws €1bn from sovereign wealth fund to fight virus
Apr 07, 2020 07:09Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has approved a government request for tapping into the sovereign wealth fund to finance the current nationwide fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Former world officials: US sanctions compromising Iran healthcare system amid pandemic
Apr 07, 2020 06:21A group of 24 senior diplomats and defense officials have called on US President Donald Trump to make a targeted effort to ease Washington's rules, which prevent Tehran from trading in medical and humanitarian goods, in order to save “potentially hundreds of thousands of lives” across the Middle East amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Iranian model for fighting pandemic based on domestic initiatives: Security chief
Apr 07, 2020 05:58The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says the model used by the country to fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic should be based on exclusive and domestic initiatives, noting that Iranians have learned how to weather critical conditions.
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Rouhani: Friendly countries must pressure US to lift Iran sanctions amid pandemic
Apr 07, 2020 05:11President Hassan Rouhani says friendly countries should exert pressure on the United States to lift its "cruel and one-sided" sanctions against Tehran at the current juncture that the Islamic Republic is diligently fighting the deadly new coronavirus pandemic.