Ali Salehabadi told a televised interview on Saturday evening that the country's economic status is such that the inflation rate is currently declining. “In recent months, we have seen more supply than demand in hard currency, and this calm in the market will affect inflation.”

He announced the country's economic growth rate in the first six months of the current calendar year, which began on March 21 at 3.3 percent, and added: "A large part of this figure is related to the first three months of the year and the second quarter of the year due to power outages we faced lower economic growth because production of the country was affected by power outage.”

Regarding the stability of the hard currency rate in next year's budget, he said: "Now the sale of oil and petroleum products is much better than in the past.”