The Iranian government says new COVID-19 cash handouts will be available to an extra 10 million people as it intensifies efforts to mitigate the economic impacts the coronavirus pandemic. Iranian presidents deputy for economic affairs Mohammad Nahavandian said on Saturday that the monthly 1-million rial ($4) cash handouts that had originally been ...

Press TV - Iranian government has provided 17 million families in the country with cash handouts as part of measures to ease the economic impacts of the new coronavirus pandemic. Tthe Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said that nearly 16.5 million households had received the 10-million-rial ($62.5) payment as of Thursday evening local time. It said ...

Press TV - The Iranian government plans a one-off cash handout of 10 million rials (nearly $240 at official currency rate) to more than 23 million households in the country as part of efforts to help people cope with the economic impacts of the new coronavirus pandemic. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a recent Cabinet meeting that the cash ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: The gasoline price hike of November 15 triggered widespread and violent protests in Iranian cities. Three days later the government implemented an increase in the amount of cash transfers to compensate for the price increase and soften its blow. But do the new transfers adequately compensate for the gasoline ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Government claims it is switching subsidies from petrol consumption to households Irans government has begun rushing out promised direct payments to 60 million Iranians, in a sign that the regime has been spooked by the scale of protests against petrol price rises announced last week. In some cases petrol prices ...

Press TV - The Iranian government is to pay a first batch of inclusive cash handouts after a hike in the price of gasoline sparked discontent across the country. A deputy president of Irans Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) said on Monday that a total of 20 million people will receive the cash in the early hours of Tuesday. Mohammad Reza Adl ...

Financial Tribune- Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht believes it is possible to triple cash subsidies paid to the poor. Noting that the government has raised cash payments to the less-privileged from an average of 710,000 rials ($19) to 2.4 million rials ($64) since the Iranian month of Farvardin (March 21-April 20), Nobakht added that ...

Tasnim- Mostafa Hashemitaba, one of the six candidates running for Irans presidency, said the cash handouts to the public should be scrapped in order to combat underdevelopment. Speaking in a televised program on Thursday night, Hashemitaba voiced strong opposition to cash handouts, stressing that the subsidy reform plan should be carried out in ...

Al-Monitor |Saeid Jafari: With two weeks to go to Irans May 19 presidential election, Principlist candidates have embarked on a competition to see who can attract more voters by making bigger campaign promises. Conservative hopefuls Ebrahim Raisi, the custodian of the holy shrine of the eighth Shiite Imam, and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ...

Press TV- Impoverished families in Iran will get a raise of up to 50% in monthly allowance, under a program which had been adopted for sometime but will go to force from Saturday night. More than 2.1 million families covered by Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation and Welfare Organization of Iran will receive cash handouts of between $40 and $125 a ...

Iran kick-started a subsidy reform plan in December 2010 that was originally drafted to be implemented in three phases over five years. Given the change of government in 2013 and irregularities in the implementation of the original plan by the previous administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-13), the second phase was only initiated in ...