The IMF sees Iran’s gross official reserves at $103.2 billion in 2019, falling $5.1 billion compared to 2018.

The data presented puts the total foreign exchange reserves of the region at $1148.6 billion, nine percent of which is Iran’s share.

The foreign reserves of some other countries in the region include Algeria $55.6 billion, Bahrain $2 billion, Iraq $53.2 billion, Kuwait $37.2 billion, Libya $77.7 billion, Oman $16.1 billion, Afghanistan $8.4 billion and Pakistan $10 billion.

In its previous Regional Economic Outlook titled “Regional Economic Outlook Update: Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan” IMF predicted that Iran’s gross official reserves would reach $108.4 billion in 2018.

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“The culture ministry should try to put out good books with valuable materials for the younger generation,” said Ayatollah Khamenei who was accompanied by Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi.

“We should not be concerned over the distortion of information by the West about freedom of expression in Iran,” he said and added, “Western countries are suffering from censorship of books but they do not want to acknowledge it.”

Ayatollah Khamenei praised Revayate Fat’h Publications for publishing “Farhad’s Footprint”, a biography of a Zoroastrian soldier who was martyred during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

He also expressed his admiration of Ofoq Publications for its books from the world’s classical literature, including Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”.

The Tehran International Book Fair is currently underway at Imam Khomeini Mosalla and will run until May 4.

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