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Iraj Harirchi | |
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ایرج حریرچی | |
 Harirchi in 2019 | |
| Director of National Center for Fight with Coronavirus | |
| In office 24 February 2020 – 3 August 2021 | |
| President | Hassan Rouhani |
| Deputy Minister of Health | |
| In office 22 October 2014 – 3 August 2021 | |
| President | Hassan Rouhani |
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| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) |
Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi (Persian:ایرج حریرچی تبریزی; born 1966) is an Iranian politician andsurgeon. He is the lecturer atTehran University of Medical Sciences at Tehran Cancer Institute. He also served asdeputy minister of Health and Medical Education.
During theCOVID-19 pandemic in Iran, on 25 February, Harirchi announced that he had been diagnosed withCOVID-19, and had self-quarantined.[1] Just the day before, parliamentarianAhmad Amirabadi Farahani's claimed that 50 people had died inQom from COVID-19, which Harirchi denied.[2] At the press conference, Harirchi was coughing and sweating.[3] On 12 March,Saeed Namaki noted that Iraj Harirchi had fully recovered from the virus.[4]
During theCOVID-19 pandemic he said that Iran opposed quarantines, because they belonged to an era before theFirst World War – "to the plague, cholera, stuff like that".[5] This statement was met with much criticism in universities as well as in social media.[6]
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