Grandson of Khamenei Contracts Coronavirus

“Russia Today”  a Russian news website revealed that a grandson of the  Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was infected with the Coronavirus.

Also, two infections were confirmed over the last 24 hours, among them was a member of The Expediency Discernment Council (EDCS) of the System.

The correspondent of RT quoted a spokesman of the Iranian council as he said that Mohamed Mir Mohamedy, member of the EDCS was infected with the deadly virus but his case is stable now.

He denies what was traded by users of some social media websites about the decline of his health as he is in a coma.

Mother of Mohamdy passed away yesterday in a hospital in Qom, a sacred city in Iran, due to infection with the Coronavirus.

She is a full sister of Sheikh Musa Shabeery Zanjani, one of the religious references in the Islamic Republic in Iran.

The senior sheikh is still quarantined after the death of the executive and financial official of his office.

According to the Iranian Ministry of Health, 205 new cases of infection were recorded within the last 24 hours.

Iran is the only country in the Gulf region that has reported deaths from the Coronavirus which has been renamed by the World Health Organization as Covid-19

At least 210 people in Iran have died as a result of the new coronavirus disease.

Most of the victims are from the capital, Tehran, and the city of Qom, where cases of Covid-19 first emerged.

The figure is six times higher than the official death toll of 34 given by the health ministry earlier on Friday.

Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour insisted it was being transparent and accused the western media of spreading lies.

It comes after a member of parliament for Qom accused the authorities of a cover-up and the US expressed concern that they may not be sharing information.

"We have made offers to the Islamic Republic of Iran to help," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a congressional committee in Washington on Friday.

"Their healthcare infrastructure is not robust and, to date, their willingness to share information about what's really going on inside... Iran has not been robust."

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi dismissed the offer of help.

"The claim to help Iran confront coronavirus by a country that has imposed expansive pressures on the Iranian nation through its economic terrorism and has even blocked the way for the purchase of medical equipment and medicines is ridiculous and a political-psychological game," he said.