Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at the beginning of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Governors:

Farhikhtegan newspaper, referring to the increase in the number of cinemas in recent years, reports that every Iranian went to the cinema at least 1.5 times in 1364, while the Iranian snake has only gone to the cinema three times in the last 10 years.

Referring to the difficult economic and living conditions, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the speaker of the parliament, said: "We are not in trouble today because of poverty, but because of gaps and weakness in management."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Iran had announced that the Vienna talks [on the revival of the UN Security Council] would be resumed in the near future.

In an interview with Asr-e Andisheh, Guardian Council spokesman Tahan Nazif said that livelihood problems played a role in reducing turnout in the presidential election rather than disqualification. Regarding the change in the election laws, he added that the Guardian Council, when disappointed with the parliament, approved the criteria for approving the candidates themselves.