Azerbaijan, Baku, Jun.19/ Trend R.Zamanov
US dollar was sold at the price of 24,782 rials at Iran's Forex Centre on Wednesday.
The euro was also presented at the price of 33,184 rials, while the British pound sterling was traded at 38,721 rials, the IRNA News Agency reported.
Euros, British pounds and US dollars were traded at the prices of 33,120, 38,949, and 24,795 rials respectively on Tuesday.
The foreign exchange centre was officially inaugurated on September 24, 2012.
Latest reports released by the Central Bank of Iran show that 20,245 applications have been registered at Iran's Foreign Exchange Centre from the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21) until June 13.
The centre allows importers of goods including truck tyres, construction equipment and synthetic fibres to buy dollars at a rate of two per cent cheaper than the street rate at any given time.
According to the centre's spokesman Samad Karimi, Iran's Forex Centre has the capacity to trade over 100 million dollars each working day.
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.
The Iranian government plans to use revenues from petrochemical sales and 14.5 per cent of its oil revenue to provide dollars for the centre, Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani said in September, 2012. He did not give an absolute figure for the amount of dollars to be supplied.
"With the distribution of currency at this centre, the exchange rate in the market will go down because some of the demand for dollars will be met there and the pressure of demand will be removed," Bahmani was quoted as saying