A newspaper close to the office of the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has suggested that financial institutions operating under his aegis should support low-income Iranians.
President Hassan Rouhani insists on ending the coronavirus-related restrictions and advocates resumption of economic activities in opposition to the Health Ministry which has kept warning that the deadly virus outbreak cannot be controlled and overcome without such restrictions.
The Iranian administration's spokesperson, Ali Rabiei, says the coronavirus outbreak has adversely affected the employment situation of 7.3 million Iranians.
The coronavirus pandemic for many may be a global health crisis but for some in Iran it is the White Death, a sign of the imminence of the Day of Judgement.
Iran's clerics and revolutionary guards have launched campaigns to appear to help coronavirus patients and take care of the dead as an attempt to regain their popularity.
After weeks of delays the Iranian government has offered workers a relatively small salary adjustment, which is half of the country’s 41 percent inflation rate.
A top anti-coronavirus official in Iran's capital warned the epidemic is getting worse in Tehran as government officies and businesses reopen.
An official publication of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday called on authorities to take measures to placate China for the "irresponsible statements" of a health official who has questioned China's honesty about the dimensions of its coronavirus epidemic.
The Iranian parliament (Majles) rejected an emergency bill for a one-month nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
Two more high-ranking officials of the Iranian Health Ministry and Coronavirus Combat Taskforce have joined the ministry spokesman in criticizing the misleading data that China has presented to the world about its coronavirus epidemic.
Iranian Parliament' Research Center has warned that the government's delay in extending financial support to low-income people hit by the coronavirus outbreak may entail "painful consequences."
A remark by Iran's Health Ministry Spokesman on Sunday calling China's coronavirus figures and reports "a bitter joke" has led to a diplomatic and political uproar.
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