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Israel “flattened” the building housing Iran’s Assembly of Experts in the holy city of Qom — the clerical body constitutionally tasked with selecting the Islamic Republic’s next supreme leader — as Israeli warplanes continued pounding the regime’s central leadership compound and command infrastructure in Tehran on the fourth day of the joint U.S.–Israeli campaign.

TEHRAN — More than 180,000 people have been infected in Iran’s coronavirus outbreak since it first emerged nearly four months ago, an official said on Thursday.

Iran said Friday it had recorded nearly 7,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, warning of infection clusters in new regions after it partially eased lockdown measures.

Tehran — Iran warned of a “rising trend” in its coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday as it said 1,680 new infections took its overall caseload beyond the 100,000 mark.

Devout Muslim Shiite followers in Iran fought their way into two major shrines closed over coronavirus fears, Iranian state media reported Tuesday, as they demanded the right to continue worshipping practices that include kissing, touching and in some cases licking sacred public objects.

Iranian state media on Sunday denounced as “fake news” a viral video depicting enormous mass graves dug for coronavirus victims near the Shiite holy city of Qom, epicenter of Iran’s deadly outbreak.

Iran warned Monday the coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm local health facilities as the death toll topped 700 and another senior lawmaker died from the disease.

Reports out of Iran indicate that police apprehended an unnamed man this week after a video surfaced showing piles of corpses, presumably of Chinese coronavirus victims, at a mortuary in Qom, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, on Wednesday claimed scientists under its control are close to developing a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus, which is spreading like wildfire through Iran.

Devout Muslims in Iran who defy coronavirus health warnings were warned Tuesday they could be jailed and flogged after videos emerged of them licking holy shrines to prove their personal invincibility against any threat of infection.

Devout Iranian Muslims are releasing online videos showing the faithful licking and kissing an Islamic shrine to show they have no fear of infection during the country’s growing coronavirus outbreak.

Iran’s health ministry raised Sunday the death toll from the new virus to 8 people in the Middle Eastern country, amid concerns that clusters there, as well as in Italy and South Korea, could signal a serious new stage in its global spread.

Iran reported at least three more cases of the Wuhan coronavirus on Thursday, adding to the two cases confirmed on Wednesday. According to Iranian state media, two of the infected persons have died from the disease.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Iranian regime released Imam Hussein al-Shirazi, the son of the famous Iranian Shiite Ayatollah Sadiq al-Shirazi, on Sunday after detaining him for 13 days.

Imam Mohammad Tawhidi tells Breitbart News that “Khamenei is afraid of the ayatollahs” opposed to him and the Iranian regime.

Protesters in Iran thanked President Donald Trump for his vocal support for their cause in a message published this weekend, in which they also called on him to impose stronger sanctions, including for human rights abuses, on Iran’s regime.

Two activists arrested and charged for participating in the widespread protests calling for the demise of Iran’s Islamic regime were reportedly tortured to death in prison in Iranian Kurdistan.

In a piece titled, “Instagram Shuts Down Page of Iran’s Hero General Soleimani Again!” Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency protested the social media platform on Wednesday, which recently shut down IRGC-Quds Forces Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s page for a third time.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the “Americans and Zionists” and the “‘murderous’ Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization” compose the triangle that was behind the anti-regime protests Iran that have entered their 13th day in the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief announced the “end of the sedition” Wednesday as tens of thousands rallied in a show of strength for the country’s Islamic rulers after days of deadly unrest.

Thousands of regime supporters marched in cities across Iran on Saturday in a show of strength for the regime after two days of protests that marked the biggest unrest in years.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli Jew’s photos and videos from visits to Muslim holy sites in the Arab world have gone viral, sparking both admiration and anger.

Iran’s newly-appointed army chief on Monday warned the Islamic Republic would raze the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if the “Zionist regime” makes “any wrong move.”

Iran is holding important parliamentary elections, with turnout reportedly high enough to merit extended deadlines for voting. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei crowed that high turnout would be a show of Iranian strength that would frustrate its enemies, by underscoring Iran’s determination to back its hardline Islamist rulers.

In an unprecedented move, an Iranian government-run newspaper wrote a front page editorial in the form of a letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani last week, condemning the Iranian government’s censorship of the media and subsequent prohibition of images and mention of former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.

The regime in Tehran is recruiting Shiite refugees in neighboring Afghanistan and sending them into battle in defense of forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

A top commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) told a state-run media outlet on Wednesday that Iran is prepared to go to war with the United States and will even “welcome war” to show off Tehran’s power.