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He asked parliament to approve a budget of 2,290 trillion rials (about $248 billion) for the next Iranian year starting on March 21, a 19.6 per cent rise on current expenditure.The figure was based on projections that Iranian oil will sell for 33.7 dollars a barrel, compared to 40 dollars in the current year's budget.