Iran’s vice president and spokeswoman for 1979 hostage-takers is infected with coronavirus, state media reveals
A state-owned newspaper in Iran says Masoumeh Ebtekar, a vice president in the Islamic Republic and a spokeswoman for the 1979 hostage-takers, has the new coronavirus.
The report came from the English-language IRAN daily newspaper via its Twitter account.
Ebtekar was known during the hostage crisis as ‘Mary’ and also ‘Screaming Mary’ for her nightly televised rants against American imperialism throughout the US embassy hostage crisis in Tehran.
She is currently the Iranian vice president for Women and Family Affairs.