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Tehran Friday Prayers Not Holding This Week

reporter 1222 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:55:14 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Friday Prayers Committee announced that after almost a four-month hiatus in performing Friday prayers due to the outbreak of coronavirus the religious event will not be held in Tehran city in July 16.

Friday Prayers Committee announced that after almost four-month hiatus in performing Friday prayers due to the outbreak of coronavirus the religious event will not be held in Capital city on July 16.

The Friday prayers are held in some Iranian provinces and cities which are considered as white zones according to a regulation approved at the Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters.

Friday Prayers Policymaking Council has provided and compiled health protocols and necessary programs for the activities of congregational prayer sites [Mosalls] in white districts.

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Friday prayers resumed in some mosques

reporter 1222 — Sat, 09 May 2020 03:55:58 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Friday prayers resumed in mosques in 146 cities across Iran with minimal risk conditions for spreading the coronavirus after being banned for more than two months.

The Policymaking Council for Friday Prayers Imams urged worshippers to respect “health protocols” for attending prayer gatherings.

The Health Ministry has said in the areas where mosques reopen, worshippers must maintain social distancing, wear masks and gloves, stay only for half an hour during prayer times, and must use their personal items, said.

Mosques must also refrain from offering food and drinks, give out hand sanitizers and disinfect all surfaces.

Iran closed off religious sites and locked down parts of its economy in March after emerging as the biggest hot spot in West Asia for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Since April 11, Iran has allowed a gradual reopening of shops and, since Monday, mosques in about 30 percent of the counties where the risk of renewed outbreaks is considered low.

Prayer gatherings will continue to be banned in major cities, including all provincial capitals, for now.

Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour urged citizens to take social distancing “more seriously” on Friday as he announced more than 1,500 new cases of coronavirus infection.

“We (Iranians) are urged to continue to follow health advice, especially social distancing, more seriously than on previous days and weeks,” Jahanpour said in televised remarks.

He said 55 new virus fatalities in the past 24 hours took the overall death toll in the health crisis to 6,541.

Jahanpour said another 1,556 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus over the same period of time, taking the country’s cases to 104,691.

On Saturday, the official tally of daily infections hit 802 – its lowest level since the start of March.

Iran’s count stayed below 1,000 for a second day, however, its caseload rebounded on Monday and has stayed above that mark on each day since then.

Since reporting its first cases in mid-February, the Islamic republic has struggled to contain the spread of the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease.

In order to contain the spread of the disease, Iran has taken various restrictive measures, without ever imposing a lockdown or quarantine.

AP and AFP contributed to this story.

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Friday prayers cancelled amid coronavirus

reporter 1222 — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:31:09 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – According to the statement made by the policymaking committee of holding Friday Prayers in Iran, prayers ceremonies in provincial capitals will be canceled for the third week since the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.

The decision has been made, as the two previous weeks, due to the requests made by the Iranian ministry of health and National Headquarters for Fighting Coronavirus.

The prayers have been canceled in 23 Iranian capital cities of all provinces including Tehran, Qom, Mashhad, Tabriz, Hamedan, Isfahan, Shiraz, Ahvaz, Sari and etc.

As of Wednesday, the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has infected 119,245 people in 119 countries, claiming 4,300 lives.

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Iran not to leave UK piracy unanswered

reporter 1222 — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:11:29 +0000

“The wicked Britain commits an act of maritime piracy and steals our ship… They [the British] perpetrate a crime and make it look legal,” Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks at a meeting with Friday prayers leaders from across Iran on Tuesday in Tehran.

“The Islamic Republic and faithful elements of the establishment will not leave this wickedness unanswered and will respond to it at an appropriate time and place,” the Leader added.

Gibraltar police and customs agencies, aided by a detachment of British Royal Marines, boarded and impounded supertanker Grace 1, on suspicion of carrying crude to Syria in breach of the European Union’s unilateral bans on the Arab state.

Reports say the seizure took place at the request of the United States, which has been bent on driving Iranian oil exports to “zero” as part of its sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Ayatollah Khamenei added that the western governments’ major vice is their arrogance in treating the rest of the world.

“If the country opposing them is a weak one, their arrogance works; but if it’s a country that knows and stands against them, they will be defeated,” he said, adding that “regarding our ties with Europeans, what makes problems persist is their arrogance.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader referred to the 2015 nuclear deal, and recent developments over the matter, saying, “According to our Foreign Minister, Europe made 11 commitments, none of which they abided by.”

“We abided by our commitments and even beyond them. Now that we’ve begun to reduce our commitments, they oppose it. How insolent! You didn’t abide by your commitments!”

“Iran will continue the process of cutting down on its JCPOA commitments,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

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Iran’s resistance turned ME to graveyard of US aspirations

reporter 1222 — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 09:00:58 +0000

Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader said that the resistance of the Iranian nation turned the Middle East into a graveyard of United States’ aspiration.

Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari said that US forces’ withdrawal from Syria is not insignificant, adding, “of course, one should be cautious about their other conspiracies.”

He also pointed to the sneaky visit of US President Donald Trump to Iraq and noted that Iraqi people and officials didn’t welcome him and isolated the aggressive country.

The senior cleric wished that all US forces would exit the region in the near future, highlighting, “presence of Americans in the region brings nothing but misery.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, he said that Hezbollah and nations of Syria, Iraq, and Bahrain have formed a golden chain of resistance in the region and that Israeli regime is experiencing very tough days.

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