New conditions for selling foreign currency with national card
Applicants for purchasing foreign currency with a national card must open a foreign currency account, as from now on, the allocated foreign currency will be deposited into the buyers’ foreign currency accounts.
It should be noted that applicants for purchasing foreign currency allocations must deposit the equivalent of $100 in their account in rials in order to open a foreign currency account. Additionally, the possibility of withdrawing dollar notes from the foreign currency account may take up to five working days after the purchase and deposit of the foreign currency into the account.
The withdrawal fee from the account in the form of banknotes is equivalent to 5% of the withdrawn amount in rials. The exchange rate will be equal to the selling rate of dollar and euro banknotes in the electronic currency trading system, plus 1% on the day of withdrawal.