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.

Reformist candidate Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh’s campaign calls on the Iranian people to exercise their national right and turn out en masse in the June 18 presidential election to help bring “a third Khatami administration” to office.

Presidential candidate Seyyed-Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi says it is time for a “revolution” in management methods and mechanisms of running the country.

Abdol-Nasser Hemmati, the governor of Iran’s Central Bank and a candidate in the 2021 presidential election, says he should not be lumped together with those responsible for the economic status quo.

Reformist presidential candidate Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh says a competitive economy can bolster production and consequently help contain rising prices.

Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raeisi’s campaign has decided to open a popular branch to organize his “Reformist and Moderate supporters,” a report says.

Iranian presidential candidate Alireza Zakani says the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program is staged by Western governments in pursuit of their “neo-colonialist” goals, and that the Americans will ‘beg’ and remove all the sanctions on Iran if he wins the election.

Presidential candidate Saeed Jalili says his eight years of research and consultations with experts have shown beyond doubt that the next administration can not only manage the country’s affairs properly but also make it take a leap forward.

The spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says foreign media outlets go into overdrive at the time of elections in Iran, each time churning out new untruthful content in an attempt to drive a wedge between the people and the government.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has backed up the Constitutional Council against recent criticism of its disqualification of some presidential hopefuls.