Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi ( fa, ایرج حریرچی تبریزی; born 1966) is an Iranian politician and surgeon. He is the lecturer at

Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) ( fa, دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران, ''Danushgah-e 'lum Pezeshki-ye Tehran'') is the largest and most highly ranked medical university of Iran. In September 2008, Iran's Mini ...

at Tehran Cancer Institute. He is working as the deputy minister of Health and Medical Education.

2020 COVID-19 outbreak

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, on 25 February, Harirchi announced that he had been diagnosed with

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, and had self-quarantined. Just the day before, parliamentarian Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani's claimed that 50 people had died in Qom from COVID-19, which Harirchi denied. At the press conference, Harirchi was coughing and sweating. On 12 March, Saeed Namaki noted that Iraj Harirchi had fully recovered from the virus. During the

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he said that Iran opposed quarantines, because they belonged to an era before the

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"to the plague, cholera, stuff like that". This statement was met with much criticism in universities as well as in social media.

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1966 births Living people Iranian Vice Ministers Politicians from Tabriz {{Iran-med-bio-stub