Iranian presidential candidate Sa’eed Jalili says the President Hassan Rouhani administration’s opening-to-the-world policy — symbolized in an early campaign trademark of a key, “locked the country down” for eight years.

Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, who hails from the Reformist camp but who has nevertheless not secured the solid support of the faction, has written to the main Reformist body in the country to demand a meeting where he could present his presidential agenda.

Presidential candidate Nasser Hemmati described the sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States as one of Iran’s “most fundamental problems,” blaming the restrictions for more than have of the country’s economic woes.

Presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei says his economic agenda will focus, among other things, on increasing and stabilizing the value of Iran’s national currency if he wins the election.

Iranian presidential candidate Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi has pledged to take inflation down to below 5% if he is elected president, a reduction of 10 times.

Ebrahim Raeisi, the Iranian Judiciary chief, who is running for president, says he will form a “coalition government” with Iranian manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and workers, distinguishing his campaign with an explicitly economic and production-oriented agenda.

Iranian presidential candidates Alireza Zakani, who is a Principlist, and Nasser Hemmati, a Moderate generally viewed as close to the Reformists, engage in a war of words on Twitter over Iran’s economic hardships.

Presidential candidate Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi calls on the Iranian youth to go to the ballot boxes in the June 18 presidential vote, despite all the woes they faced during the terms of President Rouhani.

Iranian presidential candidate Sa’eed Jalili says he has a plan to render sanctions as an instrument against Iran ineffective forever.

Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei has promised to increase cash handouts to the Iranian people from the current monthly 455,000 Iranian rials (1.9 US dollars) to 4,500,000 — an increase of ten times and another indication that the candidates running in the June 18 election are heavily focused on the economy.