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Central Bank of Iran Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said the bank has supplied $30 billion in import currency over seven months. He said the funds finance essential imports, medicine and industrial raw materials. Hemmati also pledged full banking support for reconstruction of energy facilities damaged in Assaluyeh, and said the bank had defeated a plot to collapse the economy. Press TV carried his remarks, and the excerpt gives no further detail on the plot.