Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that hard currency reserves of Iran exceeds recent World Bank report of 100 billion dollars, reported the local satellite TV Sunday print.
Addressing the opening ceremony of a Conference dubbed the banking system on national development path in Tehran on Saturday, Ahmadinejad said that "the national currency reserves were estimated to be $ 100 billion, but the figure is certainly higher," the report said.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Mahmoud (CBI) said Saturday that the Bahmani Iran imported hundreds of tons of gold, when its price was 656 dollars per ounce, according to press TV. "Today the global price of gold stands at 1230 dollars (per ounce). given the current situation, billions of dollars have been added to the foreign exchange reserves of the country, "Bahmani was quoted as saying.
Bahmani said at the beginning that the World Bank estimated foreign currency reserves of Iran to 100 billion, and the World Bank statistics are true, any country with this amount of the reserves never would hit a dead-end, according to local news agency val.non.disp returns.
Referring to the failure of the West in the adoption of sanctions against Iran, said that "it may be possible to put pressure on a small country with four to five billion dollars in reserves, but the situation regarding Iran is different".
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