Qom in a sentence

QOM, Nov. 13 (MNA) – Covering over 6 ha of land, Fat’habad Garden is the oldest garden in Qom province which has remained intact over a long period of time.

Deputy Health Minister Younes Panahi said poisoning is happening in the holy city of Qom and they are not accidental.

From Qom, the mysterious disease spread to other cities in the following weeks, including the capital, Tehran, causing a state of shock in Iranian society.

And the head of the Medical Science University in Qom, Mohammad Reza Ghadir, has expressed concern over "the spread of those people infected by the virus across the city".

Authorities later brought his remains and those of the others to Iran’s holy city of Qom, where another massive crowd turned out.

Farahani, the Iranian lawmaker from Qom, was quoted in local media as saying that more than 250 people are quarantined in that city, which is a popular place of religious study for Shiites from across Iran and other countries.

Iranian health officials have not said whether health workers in Qom who first came in contact with infected people had taken precautionary measures in treating those who died of the virus.

Iran’s Imam Muhammad Saeedi opposed imposing health restrictions in the city of Qom, home to the country’s top Islamic clerics, which each week has thousands of pilgrims paying their respects by kissing and touching the numerous shrines and landmarks.

It comes after a member of parliament for Qom accused the authorities of a cover-up and the US expressed concern that they may not be sharing information.

It's thought that a Chinese worker who'd returned to the Iranian city of Qom may have been the source for the Iranian cases there, although cases are arising elsewhere.

Latest reports have shown Khuzestan red along with a few other provinces, including the capital Tehran and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom, where Iran reported its first cases in February.

Mohammad Tavakoli, a representative of the health minister in Qom, said 320 people suspected to have the infection have been hospitalized, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Most infections were in the holy city of Qom.

The confirmed case was a 35-year-old who had recently returned from the city of Qom, home to the majority of Iran’s coronavirus cases, and had now been placed in quarantine, Feroz said.

The outbreak in Iran has centered mostly in the city of Qom, but spread rapidly in recent days as Iranians voted Friday in a parliamentary election.

These are the Dasht-e Kavir, which stretches from Qom in the northwest nearly to the Afghan border, and the Dasht-e Lut, which extends south to Balochistan.

Those who tested positive are still in Qom.

If we include our brothers in the holy cities of Qom and Najaf al-Ashraf too, it will make for a spectacular number.

Owing to his suspicious activities, he was expelled from the Qom seminary after which he traveled to Australia and unveiled his real face there.

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would resume enrichment at the plant near the Shiite holy city of Qom that was suspended under a 2015 nuclear accord with the United States and five other powers.