VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 35

29-MAY-1995

Financial and Banking News

Public Finance

Confusion Reigns In Iran Over Application Of New Foreign Exchange Rules

In what may well prove a vain attempt to control the dramatic devaluation ofthe sickly riyal, the Central Bank of Iran appears to be in the process offormulating a regime of foreign exchange allocation reminiscent of the dark daysof scarcity following the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Sources in Tehran say thatthe authorities have, for the moment, succeeded...