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Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi is a journalist who has worked for various Iranian media outlets. On Twitter: @FaghihiRohollah

TEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 25: Irans revolutionary guard volunteer members disinfect the entrance of a hospital on March 25, 2020 in Tehran, Iran. Iran is battling the worst outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the region and authorities have advised people to stay at home but have not imposed the kinds of lockdowns seen in other countries. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Iranians look to each other, not government, for solidarity amidst COVID-19

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

Members of firefighters wear protective face masks, amid fear of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they disinfect the streets, ahead of the Iranian New Year Nowruz, March 20, in Tehran, Iran March 18, 2020. Picture taken March 18, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Ali Khara via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC23NF9FQH2G

Iranians’ demands for quarantine fall on deaf ears

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

A cleric's cure for coronavirus becomes butt of jokes in Iran

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

Repercussions of Iranian radicals running the country

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

A general view of the Iranian parliament in Tehran, Iran June 25, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC1189997B90

Far-left current rises from among Iranian hardliners

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

Iran controversial director's new political drama lambasted by moderates

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

Members of Iran's influential experts assembly attend a session in Tehran on March 12, 2019. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran’s most powerful hard-line clerics to reunite in Assembly of Experts election

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 12: Actor Behrouz Vossoughi speaks onstage at the "Rhino Season" press conference during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 12, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)

Iranian actors call on Rouhani to allow cinema legend to come home

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.

Guardian Council Chief Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (top L) and Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah (R) listen to the opening speech during Iran's Assembly of Experts' biannual meeting in Tehran March 8, 2011. Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani lost his position on Tuesday as head of an important state clerical body after hardliners criticised him for bei

How Iranian hard-liners helped Reformists ahead of elections

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

A man holds a picture of late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, as people celebrate in the street after Iran launched missiles at U.S.-led forces in Iraq, in Tehran, Iran January 8, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC2JBE917CLC

Donald Trump, the 'divine gift' to Iranian hard-liners

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

The Reformist push for Rouhani's resignation

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi

Meet the dismissed sports host who challenged Iran’s state TV

Rohollah Faghihi

Rohollah Faghihi