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Iran Again Breaks Its Single-Day Record for Virus Deaths

A member of emergency medical staff sits in an ambulance with a coronavirus patient. (File photo: Reuters)
A member of emergency medical staff sits in an ambulance with a coronavirus patient. (File photo: Reuters)
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Iran Again Breaks Its Single-Day Record for Virus Deaths

A member of emergency medical staff sits in an ambulance with a coronavirus patient. (File photo: Reuters)
A member of emergency medical staff sits in an ambulance with a coronavirus patient. (File photo: Reuters)

Iran recorded its worst day of new deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with 337 confirmed dead on Monday.

The grim milestone represents a significant spike from the previous single-day death toll record of 279.

Fatalities have soared in recent weeks, as authorities struggle to contain the virus’s spread months into the pandemic.

Iran has seen the worst outbreak in the Middle East with a death toll that topped 30,000 this week.

The government has resisted a total lockdown to salvage its devastated economy, already weakened by unprecedented US sanctions.

Now the death toll is skyrocketing, eclipsing the previous highs recorded in March amid the worst of its outbreak.

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Italy Says No US Extradition Request for Detained Iranian Businessman So Far

A seagull stands in front of an Italian flag flying at half-mast on the Altare della Patri-Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AFP Photo)
A seagull stands in front of an Italian flag flying at half-mast on the Altare della Patri-Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AFP Photo)
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Italy Says No US Extradition Request for Detained Iranian Businessman So Far

A seagull stands in front of an Italian flag flying at half-mast on the Altare della Patri-Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AFP Photo)
A seagull stands in front of an Italian flag flying at half-mast on the Altare della Patri-Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AFP Photo)

The United States has not submitted any formal request of extradition for an Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini detained in Milan, Italy's justice minister said in an interview published on Thursday.
"The matter of Abedini is purely legal ... regardless of the (freeing of Italian journalist) Cecilia Sala. It is premature to talk of extradition, also because no formal request has been sent to our ministry so far," Justice Minister Carlo Nordio told daily La Stampa.
Abedini is wanted by the United States on suspicion of involvement in a drone strike against US forces in Jordan. Iran has denied involvement and said last week the detention of the Iranian national amounted to hostage-taking.
His arrest has been linked to the detention three days later of Italian reporter Cecilia Sala, who was seized in Tehran on Dec. 19 while working under a regular journalistic visa and freed on Jan. 8.