The polls were marked by a historically low turnout and criticized as largely uncompetitive after an unelected panel of clerics and lawyers barred all the major reformist and centrist candidates from running, all but guaranteeing Raisi’s victory.
Rouhani for his part accuses the hardliners in parliament of sacrificing national interests for domestic power struggles ahead of the presidential election in June.
Iran generally uses the term "global arrogance" to refer to the United States.
China has delivered several shipments of medical supplies to Iran. On February 29, a five-member Chinese medical team visited Iran for a month-long mission to help Iran fight the pandemic.
The president said it was likely that until the end of the current Iranian year which ends on March 20, 2021, the country will be grappling with the disease.
"Aviation and shipping industries should be vigilant and not allow their industries to be exploited by a terrorist," Mnuchin added.
The government claims that it wants to tackle fuel smuggling and give cash payments to the poorest three-quarters of Iran’s 80 million population.
On the eve of what was already likely to be a strained meeting, Britain, France and Germany accused Iran of developing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, in a letter to the UN on Thursday.
Earlier in September, the US had imposed its first-ever sanctions against Iran’s space agency and accused it of disguising a missile program.
The move comes a day after Iran announced it was now operating twice as many advanced IR-6 centrifuges that can enrich uranium more efficiently.
