According to AFP, 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.
Hossein Sheikholeslam, “a veteran and revolutionary diplomat” died late on Thursday, IRNA said.
The novel coronavirus has also claimed the lives of other Iranian officials, including Mohammad Mirmohammadi of the Expediency Council which advises Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
