Seyed Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi, a member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, a body that advises Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died on Monday from coronavirus , Sputnik News reported.Some 66 people have died from coronavirus and over 1,500 have been infected in Iran as of Monday morning, Reuters reported.Several high-ranking officials, including a vice minister, deputy health minister and five lawmakers, have tested positive for the coronavirus."The definite latest numbers we have are 523 new infections and 12 new deaths so the total number of those infected until now is 1501 and the number of deaths is 66," said Iran's Deputy Health Minister, Alireza Raisi.One lawmaker, elected in Iran's February 21 polls, has died of the coronavirus, Iranian media reported last week.Iran's Health Minister Saeed Namaki warned on Friday of "a very difficult week" ahead in the country, which only announced its first infections and deaths from the coronavirus on February 19 and where the death rate among confirmed cases has been around 10%, compared to around 3% elsewhere.Saudi Arabia is now the only Arab Gulf state not to have reported any cases of the coronavirus, which has infected about 80,000 people and killed more than 2,800, mostly in China.
, a council member of Iranian , died of COVID-19, the government announced yesterday.  Mir-Mohammadi was 71 years old.  According to the report by , he died at the Masih-e-Daneshavari hospital in the capital city Tehran.
File photo of Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi 
Mir-Mohammadi served as one of the advisors of the .  He had served Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in that capacity since 2017.  Mir-Mohammadi had previously represented Iran's  in the .

A few days back, Mir-Mohammadi's mother died after contracting COVID-19, '''' reported.  She was sister of  .  Multiple Iranian government officials including deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi and vice president of women and family affairs  had also contracted COVID-19.

Offering his condolence, speaker of the parliament  wrote on : 

Ali Reza Raisi, speaking for the country's Health Ministry, reported yesterday, "The definite latest numbers we have are 523 new infections and 12 new deaths so the total number of those infected until now is 1501 and the number of deaths is 66".  According to Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering late today, 291 patients have recovered from the virus in Iran.