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SULAYMANIYAH, Iraqi Kurdistan Iran s currency is in free-fall, falling almost 10% over the weekend, breaking through the psychologically important half-million mark to more than 600,000 rials to the dollar. The plunging currency led the Tehran bazaar to close, an event that preceded the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
DUBAI, Feb 26 Iran’s rial currency sank to a record low against the US dollar on Saturday despite central bank measures aimed at cooling demand for foreign currency from.
The rial was trading at 575,000 on the unofficial free market against the dollar, compared to 540,000 on Friday, according to foreign exchange site Bonbast.com. The website bazar360.com also gave the rate as 575,000