“If we want to eliminate poverty and increase welfare in the country, we must have economic growth”, Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with a group of Iranian entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and representatives of knowledge-based companies on Monday.

The economic spokesman of the administration Ehsan Khandouzi, presenting the statistics on Iran's economic situation this spring, based on the report of the Iranian Statistics Center, said: "The economic growth this spring reached 3.8%, which is 4.3% excluding the oil sector."