According to the local information centre, government of Iran on behalf of President Hassan Rouhani, has developed a draft national digital currency.

It is reported that Saeed Mahdian, Deputy Director, responsible for developing of rules for the High Council of cyberspace, Iran announced that the country is in an active phase of realization of the idea of introducing a national currency.

Mahdian also said that the state government will soon remove the uncertainties in this matter, because the Central Bank of Iran intends to introduce a formal position on this issue at the end of September.

Currently operations cryptocephalinae operations prohibited Iranian banks and credit institutions, after the problems with money laundering that was discovered in December 2017.

Earlier, Iran has confirmed that it will create your own public token to bypass the upcoming US sanctions, and also to facilitate financial transactions abroad.

Imitating the practices of Venezuela, whose government in February this year established the first national cryptocurrency Petro, the Iranian authorities consider the technology of the blockchain, to bypass the problems in the country, including a complete ban on the purchase of U.S. dollars, which was adopted in early August.

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