State TV: Recalled Iran ambassador to Yemen dies of COVID-19

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s apical diplomat to Yemen died connected Tuesday aft reportedly contracting the coronavirus, the country’s authorities TV said.

The decease of Ambassador Hassan Irloo came aft helium was recalled from war-torn Yemen for what Iran described arsenic aesculapian treatment.

State-run media successful Iran said helium had go infected with the microorganism successful Yemen, wherever a warfare betwixt Iran-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led subject conjugation has raged for six years.

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that Irloo was being removed from his station implicit increasing strains betwixt Iran and the Houthis, who clasp Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.

The U.S. State Department nether then-President Donald Trump had described Irloo arsenic a subordinate of Iran’s almighty paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.