DUBAI: The mother-in-law of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s youngest son has died at a hospital in Tehran due to COVID-19, state-run IRNA has reported.
The report said Ezat Khamoosi was the mother-in-law of cleric Meysam Khamenei, one of the sons of the Ayatollah.
More than a dozen Iranian figures have died of COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus, which has so far infected 23,049 people in the regime.
Iran’s COVID-19 death toll stood at 1,812 on Monday.