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‘80 hours for 80mn campaign’ pressing US to ditch Iran sanctions amid outbreak
Mar 25, 2020 02:24Amid a worldwide outcry against the United States’ illegal and unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran, a popular campaign has been launched to pressure Washington into temporarily lifting the sanctions that are obstructing the Iranian people’s efforts to curtail the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
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US told it’s time to lift Iran sanctions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Mar 25, 2020 02:15Top diplomats and officials from all around the world are increasingly urging the United States to remove its unilateral sanctions against Iran amid the country’s battle against the novel coronavirus.
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Sanctions on Iran, others facing coronavirus must be urgently re-evaluated: UN
Mar 25, 2020 02:10The United Nations rights chief says any sanctions imposed on Iran, among other countries grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, should be “urgently re-evaluated” to support lives of millions of people worldwide.
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US using COVID-19 to express hostility: Iran’s Shamkhani
Mar 25, 2020 00:28Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani lambasted the US authorities for resorting to the coronavirus outbreak for showing hostility towards other nations.
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IRGC gearing up for biodefense maneuvers, disinfection operations across Iran
Mar 24, 2020 12:59Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is gearing up for fresh biological defense drills as well as countrywide disinfection operations amid warnings that the new coronavirus pandemic may be the outcome of a biological attack targeting certain nations.
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WHO: US could become next coronavirus epicenter
Mar 24, 2020 12:56The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which finally forced reluctant organizers to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Police clear citizenship law protest site in Indian capital, citing virus lockdown
Mar 24, 2020 12:53Police have cleared out a long-running protest against a controversial citizenship law in the Indian capital, New Delhi, citing the a recently-announced lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021 over coronavirus pandemic
Mar 24, 2020 09:53The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday.
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Iran screens 41 million for coronavirus symptoms
Mar 24, 2020 09:17Iran says it has screened more than 41 million people for the new coronavirus symptoms as part of the measures that Tehran is taking to rein in the spread of a new coronavirus across the country.
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Coronavirus cases in Italy probably ‘ten times greater than announced’
Mar 24, 2020 08:56The number of cases of coronavirus in Italy is probably 10 times higher than the official tally of almost 64,000, the head of the agency that is collating the data said on Tuesday.