Iraj Harirchi

Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi (Persian: ایرج حریرچی تبریزی‎; born 1966) is an Iranian politician and physician. He is current deputy minister of Health and Medical Education.

During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran, on 25 February, Harirchi announced that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19, 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.