Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi (Persian: ایرج حریرچی تبریزی; born 1966) is an Iranian politician and surgeon.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, on 25 February, Harirchi announced that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19, and had self-quarantined.
[1] Just the day before, parliamentarian Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani's claimed that 50 people had died in Qom from COVID-19, which Harirchi denied.
[3] On 12 March, Saeed Namaki noted that Iraj Harirchi had fully recovered from the virus.
[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic he said that Iran opposed quarantines, because they belonged to an era before the First World War – "to the plague, cholera, stuff like that".