Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, belonging to 88-member Assembly of Experts responsible for selecting supreme leader, said killed in armed attack; assailant arrested

Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei, 78, was latest senior regime official to contract COVID-19; government figures show outbreak in the country has infected 14,000 people and killed over 700

Naser Makarem Shirazi, 93, a Holocaust-denying hardliner and one of the highest religious authorities in Iran, says using vaccine made by 'Zionists' okay if 'there's no substitute'