Azerbaijan, Baku, Jun.30/ Trend F.Karimov/
Liquidity in Iran amounted to 4670 trillion rials (about $381 billion) in the end of the second calendar month of Ordibehesht (May 21, 2013), showing 26 percent rise year on year, the Fars News Agency quoted Iran's Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani as saying.
Liquidity grew by 1.4 percent in Ordibehesht compared to the end of the past calendar year (March 20, 2013), he added.
He put the liquidity growth in the first calendar month of the current year compared to the last month of the past year at zero percent.
The Central Bank of Iran has announced that the inflation rate for the 12-month period concluding at the end of the third Iranian calendar month of Khordad (June 21, 2013) hit 34 percent, the Fars News Agency reported.
This is while the Statistical Center of Iran has put the inflation rate at 32.6 percent.
Earlier this month, Central Bank of Iran Governor Mahmoud Bahmani said that the country would curb inflation through three financial policies.
"By selling bonds and gold coins as well as reducing liquidity, we hope to curb inflation," Bahmani stated.
Iran's inflation rate was 25.4 percent during the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20.
In April, the International Monetary Fund reported that Iran's economy contracted by 1.9 percent in 2012 and is expected to shrink by 1.3 percent this year.
However, the economy of the Islamic Republic is forecast to grow next year by 1.1 percent, the IMF said in its annual World Economic Outlook.