Protections for Tenants Extended

The National Coronavirus Headquarters has extended last year’s (March 2020-21) tenancy rules, based on which landlords’ ability to forfeit a lease will remain suspended amid the Covid-19 pandemic, says Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami. 
“The mandatory extension of lease contracts shall remain in force for another year [until March 2022]. The cap on rental payment increase remains unchanged at 25% in Tehran, 20% in large cities with a population of over one million, namely Mashhad, Isfahan, Tabriz, Ahvaz, Qom, Shiraz and Karaj, and 15% in other Iranian cities,” he said. 
“Exceptions to the mandatory extension of lease agreements regulated by the government during the pandemic will be the same as last year,” he was quoted as saying by IRIB News.