The dollar exchange rate, amid rising concerns about the expansion of U.S. attacks against the Islamic Republic and intensifying tensions, increased by more than 1% on Saturday to reach 194,200 tomans. In hours earlier today, the dollar rate even reached close to 195,000 tomans.

Over the past month, and as tensions between the Islamic Republic and regional countries and the United States have intensified, the dollar has risen by more than 11% against the Iranian rial, and over the course of the past year it has surged by 115%; in other words, the value of Iran’s national currency has fallen by less than half over the past year.

Data from specialized currency-rate websites shows that the price of the euro against the rial also rose by about 2% on Saturday, and one euro is traded at more than 242,000 tomans.