TEHRAN – Managers and assistants at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance must obtain the minster’s approval for their foreign trips based on the organization’s new policy to deal with conditions facing Iran after the U.S. decision to return the sanctions.

The travel restriction was announced in a circular sent to the ministry’s satellite organizations on Tuesday. The circular was arranged after President Hassan Rouhani’s recent speech, in which he asked the governmental managers to decrease the costs in their organizations and to increase their efforts to cope with the economic climate in the country.

In the circular, which contains nine articles, senior executives have been ordered to work at least 12 hours a day and to be transparent in their expenditures. 

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