Maysam Bizaer

Tehran de­fi­ant af­ter ‘very so­phis­ti­cat­ed’ de­ploy­ment of its Nour mil­i­tary satel­lite amid US and Is­raeli ad­mo­ni­tions.

‘Low-risk busi­ness­es’ have re­opened across much of Iran, but many Ira­ni­ans re­main pes­simistic about the pan­dem­ic.

Calls are mount­ing for Wash­ing­ton to ease sanc­tions on Iran as it seeks IMF help to fund coro­n­avirus med­ical re­sponse.

Tourism was bring­ing in much-need­ed for­eign ex­change to Iran’s sanc­tions-rav­aged econ­o­my. Then coro­n­avirus struck.

Med­ical staff wor­ry hos­pi­tals are not equipped to han­dle out­break while oth­ers say au­thor­i­ties failed to act swift­ly.

Dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion of can­di­dates and dis­sat­is­fac­tion with re­formists could re­duce turnout in Iran’s par­lia­men­tary vote.

Cit­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns, Asia’s foot­ball gov­ern­ing body shifts two games in­volv­ing Iran­ian teams to UAE.

Try­ing to boost af­ford­abil­i­ty, Iran’s gov­ern­ment has launched a mas­sive hous­ing project. But many are scep­ti­cal.