Iranian social media users have launched a campaign against India’s discriminatory measures targeting Muslims and the deadly acts of violence perpetrated by pro-government Hindu mobs towards the country’s largest religious minority.

Iranian university students holding candles attended a vigil in front of the Indian embassy in Tehran on Tuesday night for the victims of the recent anti-Muslim violence in the Southeast Asian country.

Iranian Ambassador to Paris Bahram Qassemi lashed out at some countries which are pouncing on the outbreak of a novel coronavirus to achieve their political objectives, stressing that such an opportunistic approach is tantamount to committing crimes.

Tehran’s ambassador to the UK says the notorious Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group and other foreign-based anti-Iran movements have launched a propaganda campaign over a coronavirus outbreak in the country with the goal of misleading the Iranian public opinion.

Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said on Tuesday that the outcomes of the coronavirus epidemics and the western states' media propaganda suggest that COVID-19 virus could be a biological attack against China and Iran.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on all Iranians to help boost the country’s battle to stem a growing coronavirus epidemic by paying close heed to the directives and guidelines issued by heath officials.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour announced on Monday that the IRGC has formed a biological defense base to fight against the epidemic of COVID-19 virus infection in Iran.

Head of Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, which works under the supervision of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Alireza Jalali said that the IRGC has activated all hospitals special to its staff and their family members to treat the coronavirus patients across the country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the US is the main source of problems in all countries of the Middle East, adding that the region will still suffer from American-made mess even after Washington’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Iranian foreign ministry in a statement on Sunday welcomed any development which helps peace and stability in Afghanistan, but meantime, underlined that it is legally unjustifiable for the US to sign a peace agreement or decide about the fate of the war-torn country.