Masoud Salari, CEO of the Social Security Organization, said: "Even if we can, in the best possible way, collect all current insurance premiums, we still have at least a monthly shortfall of 17 trillion tomans to pay the pensions of pensioners."

Masoud Salari, CEO of the Social Security Organization, said: "Even if we can, in the best possible way, collect all current insurance premiums, we still have at least a monthly shortfall of 17 thousand billion tomans to pay the pensions of pensioners."

He added: "We are in debt to the Central Bank for 75 thousand billion tomans."