<p dir="ltr"><span>TEHRAN TIMES- The statement published on the website of the CBI read, “Given the adopted policies and taken measures and also taking the country’s macro-economic factors into account, the CBI believes that based on the realistic scenarios, the inflation rate in the current year will continue its downward trend.”<br> The Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) has announced that the inflation rate in the twelve-month period ended on April 19, which marks the end of the first Iranian calendar month of Farvardin, stood at 32.2 percent.<br> The inflation rate has fallen 2.6 percent in the mentioned time span from the twelve-month period ended in the last day of the previous year.<br> The center expects the inflation rate to experience a downward trend in the first quarter of this year.<br> Last year, CBI Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati had said, “Our goal is curbing inflation rate and no estimation shows an inflation rate of over 20 percent for the next year”.<br> In the Iranian calendar year of 1395 (ended on March 20, 2017), Iran could manage to experience a single-digit inflation rate after 26 years.<br> The inflation rate stood at 9.8 percent in that year according to the Statistical Center of Iran and at nine percent according to the CBI.<br> But since June 2018, when the inflation rate stood at 10.2 percent, as announced by the CBI, the country’s experiencing double-digit inflation rates again.<br> <br class="t-last-br"> </span></p>