India And China Skirt Iran Sanctions With ‘Junk for Oil’!

• This move to cut Iran off the SWIFT interbank system will have major repercussions. Once the BRICS decide to implement a competing alternative system, it is game over for the Anglo-American Illuminist global financial and monetary hegemony. Sanctions against Iran are making quite a few countries pissed off with America. With China and Russia leading the way, more will have the courage to break out of the western hegemony! The USD is toast! Military conflict is a matter of time!
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  India and China Skirt Iran Sanctions With ‘Junk for Oil’! 
  By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan and Pratish Narayanan, http://www.bloomberg.com/ 
  Iran and its leading oil buyers, China and India, are finding ways to skirt U.S. and European Union financial sanctions on the Islamic republic by agreeing to trade oil for local currencies and goods including wheat, soybean meal and consumer products.
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  India, the second-biggest importer of Iran’s oil, has set up a rupee account at a state-owned bank to settle as much as much as 45 percent of its bill, according to Indian officials. China, Iran’s largest oil customer, already settles some of its oil debts through barter, Mahmoud Bahmani, Iran’s central bank governor, said Feb. 28. Iran also has sought to trade oil for wheat from Pakistan and Russia, according to media reports from the two countries.
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  The trend is growing, sanctions specialists and U.S. officials say, and is denying the Islamic Republic hard currency to prop up the plummeting value of the rial and to fund nuclear and missile programs. Iran already is starved for dollars and euros to support the rial, and barter deals will force it to spend billions of dollars of oil revenue on goods, according to Kenneth Katzman at the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan government-research institute in Washington.
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  “Iran cannot stabilize the value of its currency with such unorthodox payment methods, and that is why its economy is collapsing,” Katzman, an Iran sanctions specialist, said in an interview. “Iran is essentially on a junk-for-oil program.”
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  Local Currency, Gold
  The second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Iran said last month it will accept payment in any local currency or gold as new sanctions make it harder for trading partners to pay in dollars and euros.
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  The barter trend, lawyers and trade analysts say, is exposing an unintended consequence of sanctions. Cutting Iran off from the global financial system, they say, is driving trade into informal channels and producing greater opportunities for corruption and the diversion of funds for illicit purposes.
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