Seventy days after the government decided to unify the US dollar's exchange rate at 42,000 rials and assure importers that all hard currency needs would be fulfilled at that rate, it is abandoning those promises in favor of a more restricted list eligible to receive foreign exchange at that cheap rate. Central Bank of Iran Governor Valiollah Seif has affirmed that as per the new forex policy, the government will soon prioritize and classify imported goods into three categories: ‘essential and vital”, “raw materials and intermediate goods” and “goods with lower priority”.