Aside from the ongoing conflict with Washington, Tehran’s biggest challenge is the “field of production and the livelihood of the people”, Iranian parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says, Al Jazeera reports.
“Inflation, unemployment and price fluctuations are not issues that can be solved with a speech or a circular,” Ghalibaf says in comments reported by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
The government has a duty to protect “the people who have resisted one of the greatest wars in history for more than eight months”, he has added.
Iran has dealt with rising inflation and investment losses for years, a situation that has been worsened by major hits to its oil and gas sector during the US-Israel war.
Recent government data show gross domestic product shrank by 10.1 percent year-on-year from March 21 to June 20, the first quarter of the Persian calendar.
