TEHRAN - The Iranian banking system has paid 36.71 quadrillion rials (about $73.42 billion) of facilities to various sectors in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20 -October 21), registering a 24.1 percent rise from the figure in the same period of the previous year, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced.

As IRNA reported, about 24 percent of the total facilities were paid to the final consumers (households).

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