Coronavirus
BREAKING: Coronavirus kills ex-Iranian deputy foreign minister
Former Iranian deputy foreign minister Hussein Sheikholeslam has died after contracting the Covid-19 virus.
The 67-year old diplomat died early Friday morning in a hospital in Iran’s capital city Tehran, Tasnim news agency reported.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described him in a press release as a friend and always fair-minded diplomat.
Sheikholeslam was deputy foreign minister throughout the 1980s and then had roles as Iran’s ambassador to Syria, a member of parliament and was most recently a foreign policy advisor to the Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani.
In Iran, more than 3,500 people have been infected with coronavirus and 107 have died.
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