TEHRAN – Seyed Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a member of the Expediency Council, died on Monday morning at Masih-e Daneshavari hospital in Tehran, Tasnim reported.
He was 71.
Some source have claimed that he has died from the coronavirus disease. However, his family has not confirmed it yet.
Mirmohammadi’s mother, the sister of Grand Ayatollah Shobeiri Zanjani, also died in the past few days.
Mirmohammadi was the representative of Qom in the parliament.
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, 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.