Adviser to Iran's foreign minister dies of coronavirus

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TEHRAN: An adviser to Iran’s foreign minister who took part in the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis has died from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.Iran has been scrambling to contain the rapid spread of coronavirus which so far has infected 3,513 people and killed at least 107 people in the Islamic republic.Before his death Sheikholeslam was advisor to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.Sheikholeslam was also one of the students involved in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

The novel coronavirus has also claimed the lives of other high-profile Iranian officials, including Mohammad Mirmohammadi of the Expediency Council which advises supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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