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02 Dec 2020; MEMO:  Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges, may face imminent execution, rights groups said on Tuesday.

"On 1 December, a judge said Ahmadreza was to be transferred to Rajai Shahr prison TODAY to proceed with his imminent execution," Amnesty International said on Twitter.

Tehran, Nov 29, IRNA - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani extended his condolences on the assassination of the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and ordered the necessary follow-up to prevent and counter such terrorist acts.

During the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers on Sunday, Rouhani offered his condolences over the assassination of the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and ordered the necessary follow-up to prevent and counter such terrorist acts that endanger Iran's security.

29 Nov 2020; MEMO: Calls for revenge over the killing of Iran's top nuclear scientist are growing louder with a series of demonstrations held across the country, including in the capital, Anadolu Agency reported.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An opinion piece published Sunday by a hard-line Iranian newspaper urged Iran to attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of the scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the early 2000s.

Though the hard-line Kayhan newspaper has long argued for aggressive retaliation for operations targeting Iran, Sunday’s opinion piece went further, suggesting any assault be carried out in a way that destroys facilities and “also causes heavy human casualties.”

Tehran, Nov 29, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter message in German language urged the international community particularly the European Union to stop double standards and condemn assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Terrorists murdered an excellent Iranian scientist. This cowardice, in which there are serious references to Israel's role, is an expression of the desperate warmongering of the perpetrators, Zarif wrote in his Twitter account on Sunday.

TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Following the recent killing of its top nuclear scientist, Iran has condemned the violence and vowed punishment, while regional countries and global bodies have expressed concern over rising tensions in the region and urged restraint.

On Friday, high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated near the capital city of Tehran by "armed terrorists," according to the Iranian Ministry of Defense.

Tehran, Nov 27, IRNA - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said hard revenge is awaiting murderers of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense.

In his message which was released on Friday, Baqeri said once again the cowardly blind terrorists affiliated with the Global Arrogance and the filthy Zionist regime of Israel in a savage act martyred one of the managers in science, research and defense field.  

Tehran, Nov 27, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter message highlighted the role of Israeli regime’s role in assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense.

“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Zarif wrote in his Twitter account on Friday.

TEHRAN, Nov 27 (NNN-IRNA) — Iran’s Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said on Friday that some 406 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours.

The health ministry spokeswoman said that with the 406 new deaths the country’s total COVID-19 death toll mounted to 47,095.

Some 14,051 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 2,245 of whom have been hospitalized, Sadat Lari said.

TEHRAN, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. anti-Iran sanctions have imposed adverse effects on the country's fight against COVID-19, Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations said on Thursday.

"Iran is currently facing the toughest sanctions ever imposed on any country, and these limitations have severely hampered our efforts to combat the COVID-19," Majid Takht Ravanchi said, reported by semi-official Fars news agency.