"In addition to US sanctions and the special circumstances of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic, falling oil prices intensified the decline in government revenues, so that during the three years of economic war, the country's oil revenues fell by more than one hundred billion dollars," read a report issued by Bijan Zanganeh, according to Iran’s presidential website.