0613 GMT: The Next Generation. One of a series of photos in Mehr of youth clubs run by the Basij militia:
0555 GMT: The Tehran Friday Prayer by Ayatollah Jannati, the head of the Guardian Council, was a mix of (inadvertent) dark comedy and serious statement.
Jannati, passing off responsibility for problems, came up with a line for the satirists, ""Heat, cold, and high prices are in God's hands", then he got to the core of his message. Only weeks after regime figures were declaring their confidence that sanctions would not affect the Islamic Republic, the Ayatollah announced an "economic crisis" which was "a war waged by the enemy against Iran".
Jannati did not go as far as the head of the Central Bank, Mahmoud Bahmani, who broke ranks at the start of the year to say this war matched that of the armed conflict with Iraq in the 1980s, but he asserted that all Iranians had to mobilise to deal with the situation.
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