Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.9/ Trend F.Milad
US dollar was sold at the price of 38,300 rials at the free market on Saturday, while Euro was presented at the price of 51,200 rials.
Euro and US dollar were traded at the prices of 51,000 and 37,800 rials on Thursday.
Each Azadi gold coin was sold at the price of 14.9 million rials at Iran's free market on Saturday, same price as Thursday.
The government has set the 28,500 rials price for the free market but the brokers refuse to trade dollar at the mentioned price.
Dollar price reached 40,000 rials in October but by inauguration of the foreign exchange center the prices fell to 27,000 rials.
Critics believe that Iranian government is not controlling the price of dollar at the free market on purpose. They claim that the government wants to take advantage of selling dollar at the free market in order to compensate its lack of budget.
The government maintains an official reference rate of 12,260 rials to the dollar, but only a limited amount of foreign exchange is available at this rate.
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