Financial Tribune - Data released by the Central Bank of Iran Thursday show that the regulator increased its foreign assets by 28% during the fifth calendar month ending August 22.

According to the monetary and banking indicators, the central bank had 4.49 quadrillion rials ($30.56 billion) in foreign assets by the end of August.

The number is also indicative of a 7.6% rise compared to the volume of liquidity registered at the end of the previous fiscal in March 2017.