Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 38

19-September-2005

IRAN

Irans External Debt Falls To $16.2Bn In June 2005

Irans external debt on 21 June 2005 (the end of the first quarter of the Iranian year 1384) stood at $16.192bn a fall of $639mn from $16.831bn (revised upwards from $15.665bn at the end of 1383) according to statistics published by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in its latest quarterly bulletin, Economic Trends. The figure for the debt represents a 32.5% increase over the...