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The rial traded at 777,000 rials to the dollar, traders in Tehran said, down from 703,000 rials on the day Trump won. Iran’s Central Bank has in the past flooded the market with more hard ...
In 2015, during Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, the rial was at 32,000 to $1. On July 30, the day that Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian was sworn in and began his term, the rate was 584,000 to $1. Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018, sparking years of tensions between the countries that persist today.
The Iranian rial hit a record low against the U.S. dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the reimposition of sanctions by the United States.
As of December 2024 Iran was experiencing its deepest and longest economic crisis in its modern history. The ministry of social welfare last year announced that 57 percent of Iranians are having some level of malnourishment. Thirty percent live below the poverty line. Iranian Rial became world's least valuable currency. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In a sign that it will allow some flexibility in exchange rates under threatened U.S. sanctions, Iran has lowered the official value of the rial versus the dollar for the first time since it tried ...
The rate was US$1 = Rls 75.75 in 1957. Iran did not follow the dollar's currency devaluation in 1973, leading to a new peg of USD 1 = Rls 68.725. The dollar peg was dropped in 1975. [citation needed] In 1979, Rls 70 equalled USD 1. The value of the rial declined precipitously after the Islamic Revolution because of capital flight from the country.
US dollar/Iranian rial exchange rate has remained relatively stable from 2003, when Iran adopted a "managed floating exchange rate" until 2012. Monetary policy is facilitated by a network of 50 Iranian-run forex dealers in Iran , the Middle-East and Europe .
Government loans and credits are available to industrial and agricultural projects, primarily through banks. Iran's unit of currency is the rial which had an average official exchange rate of 9,326 rials to the U.S. dollar in 2007. [37] Rials are exchanged on the unofficial market at a higher rate. In 1979, the government nationalized private ...