PRESS DIGEST - Iran - Nov 24

Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:15am EST

TEHRAN Nov 24 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Iranian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

IRAN - Central Bank governor Mahmoud Bahmani predicted Iran's inflation rate will drop to 10.5 percent by the end of the current Iranian year, which is on March 20, 2010.

JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI

- "The money supply growth in the country's economy will rise to 23 percent by the end of the Iranian year ... it was 16 percent at the end of the last year," said the Central Bank governor Bahmani.

JAVAN

- Iran's total external debts at the first quarter of the current Iranian year has reached to about $21.5 billion, according to a report published by Iran's Central Bank.



QODS

- "Settling the Caspian Sea's legal regime should be only done by its littoral states," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

DONYA-YE EQTESAD

- The daily Hamshahri has been closed down for carrying a picture of a temple of the banned Baha'i faith.

KAYHAN

- A group of clerics gathered in front of the Yemeni embassy in Tehran to protest against the killing of Shi'ite Muslims in the country.

EBTEKAR

- Parliament speaker Ali Larijani criticised the current political environment in Iran, saying peace and calm among political factions needed to be restored.

((Tehran newsroom, +98 21 8820 8770; editing by David Stamp))

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