Azerbaijan, Baku, Jun.7/ Trend F.Karimov/
U.S. dollar fell, but euro and British pound rose at Iran's Forex Center on Thursday compared with the day before, the Mehr News Agency reported.
U.S. dollar was priced at 24,780 rials, compared with 27,781 rials.
Euro and pound were sold at 32,452 rials and 38,148 rials, compared with 32,234 rials and 37,718 rials.
Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar was sold at 36,500 rials in the free market.
The Tehran Forex center was officially inaugurated on September 24, 2012. It allows importers of goods to buy dollars at a rate of 2 percent cheaper than the street rate at any given time.
But, 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.
Iranian government plans to use revenues from petrochemical sales and 14.5 percent of its oil revenues to provide dollars for the center, central bank governor Mahmoud Bahmani said in September, 2012.
"With the distribution of currency in this center, the exchange rate in the market will go down, because some of the demand (for dollars) will be met in this center and the pressure of demand will be removed," Bahmani was quoted as saying.
The U.S. and EU have placed restrictions on dealings with Iran's Central Bank - the only official channel for Iranians to transfer money abroad - and Swift, the body that handles global banking transactions, has cut Iran's banks out of its system.
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