The Global News network, in a report, has covered the activities and life of Sal Ghafouri, the son of Hassan Ghafoori-Fard, the Deputy of the President in the administration of Hashemi Rafsanjani. According to this report, Sal Ghafoori has received more than two million dollars in financial assistance from Canadian provincial and federal institutions, and also traveled to Latin America together with a business delegation.

Further details in a report by Mahsa Mortazavi, an Iran International reporter