TEHRAN (TASNIM) – STRESSING THE NEED FOR IRANIAN OFFICIALS TO FOCUS ON CONTROLLING INFLATION AND BOOSTING PRODUCTION, LEADER OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION CHOSE “INFLATION CONTROL AND GROWTH IN PRODUCTION” AS THE SLOGAN OF THE NEW IRANIAN CALENDAR YEAR OF 1402, WHICH BEGAN TUESDAY, MARCH 21.

In an address early Tuesday, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei congratulated the Iranian nation and other nations that hold Nowruz dear and consider it to be important, on the occasion of the commencement of the Persian New Year.