Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said the US should respond to global demand on its role in the spread of COVID-19.

Iran has lashed out at the US for “vengefully” refusing to lift its “unlawful and collective punishment” amid the country’s battle against the COVID19 outbreak, stressing all countries need to work together if they seek to emerge victorious against the fatal pandemic.

Iran High Council for Human Rights (IHCHR), issued a statement on Tuesday censuring the recent report of the UN rapporteur of Iran's human rights.

The coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in Iran, and health workers are working extra shifts to contain the outbreak, but, aside from the virus itself, they have to grapple with another challenge, the US sanctions.

A group of Iranian physicians have written a letter to certain regional heads of state, urging them to take necessary measures to destroy “all of the US biological laboratories,” amid reports and speculation that the global coronavirus outbreak has been caused by unidentified laboratories spreading the epidemic as part of a "biological warfare."

The Supreme Leader approved a proposal to grant an amnesty to a large number of Iranian prisoners on the occasion of the Muslim festive days in the lunar month of Rajab and also the Norouz festival.

Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmayeeli said that his country will file a lawsuit against the US over the targeted assassination of Commander of IRGC Qods Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy’s Medical Unit Brigadier General Seyed Ali Mousavi Jazayeri underlined that all hospitals of the force are prepared to render service to coronavirus patients, adding that 3 makeshit hospitals have also been established by the IRGC Navy across Iran.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami announced on Monday that the IRGC has dedicated tens of its hospitals to patients suffering coronavirus disease, adding that hundreds of thousands of Basiji (volunteer) forces have also been activated to help screening and sterilizing operations.

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi pointed to the need to increase the country’s power in biological defense.