The price of chicken, a staple of the Iranian diet, has surged in the past few months, partly because of difficulties in securing imported feed.
The Central Bank therefore drew on €400m swap lines with Norway and Denmark to secure imports of food, medicine and other necessities.
In September, Mohammad al-Jleilati, the finance minister, said that the country had $18 billion in foreign currency reserves, enough to secure imports for two years.
Rather, the researchers were looking for a situation like Indonesia under Suharto, where political connections were usually needed to secure import licenses, or Russia in the mid-1990s, when some state employees made fortunes overnight as the state privatized assets.
Renting a desk for two hours a day, his family living in modest Mumbai surroundings, Dhirubhai learned to work India's thick red-tape socialism, securing import and export licenses for nylon, rayon and polyester.
Renting a desk for two hours a day, his family living in a Mumbai slum, Dhirubhai learned to work India's thick red-tape socialism, securing import and export licenses for nylon, rayon and polyester.
It was built in 1620 by a Danish admiral whose main aim was to secure pepper imports for his kingdom.
To secure stable import supplies, China has been granting loans to oil-exporting countries in Africa such as Nigeria over the past few years.
Not only has such assistance not materialised to the extent needed, but also Government has so far been unable to secure commercial imports.
However, apart from concessional imports amounting to 200 000 tons from Japan, 40 000 tons from Syria, 8 000 tons from Switzerland and an expected 5 000 tons from Pakistan, it has been unable to secure further imports.
