Iran ønsker betaling i euro

Irak under Saddam Hussein ønsket betaling i euro, det falt ikke i god jord og han ble styrtet. Libias Muammar Gaddafi prøvde også å kvitte seg med oljedollar, og innføre en Nord Arfrikansk Gulldinar, han ble styrtet.

Iran har lenge ønsket å gå fra petrodollar til petroeuro, og prøvd å få med seg OPEC uten hell. Nå som de fleste sanksjoner mot Iran har blitt lettet, ønsker Iran betaling i euro for utestående oljegjeld.

Jeg har tidligere skrevet om dette monumentale regimeskifte. se Fra petrodollar til petroeuro og Fra USD til Euro. Denne prosessen har nå fått ny giv takket være lettelse i de vestlige sanksjonene mot Iran, samt Kina og Russlands økende innflytelse i det geopolitiske landskapet.

Kina er forøvrig i liket med Russland fullstendig klar over USA sin bruk av USD reservestatus som våpen i den gopolitiske maktkamp. se her PLA Strategist: The U.S Uses Its Dollar to Dominate the World

Vi får håpe USA tar denne utvikling med fatning nå, og innser at USD sine dager som verdens eneherskende oljevaluta er talte.

I dag melder altså Reuters at Iran (som helt sikkert har diskutert dette med sin største handelspartner Kina da president Xi Jinping nylig var i Iran at Iran) ønsker å gå over til å selge olje i euro.

Her er ett lite utdrag om saken plukket opp fra Zero Hedge

Iran Says No Thanks To Dollars; Demands Euro Payment For Oil Sales

Iran has also told its trading partners who owe it billions of dollars that it wants to be paid in euros rather than U.S. dollars, said the person, who has direct knowledge of the matter.

Iran was allowed to recover some of the funds frozen under U.S.-led sanctions in currencies other than dollars, such as the Omani rial and UAE dhiram.

Switching oil sales to euros makes sense as Europe is now one of Iran's biggest trading partners.

"Many European companies are rushing to Iran for business opportunities, so it makes sense to have revenue in euros," said Robin Mills, chief executive of Dubai-based Qamar Energy.

Iran's insistence on being paid in euros rather than dollars is also a sign of an uneasy truce between Tehran and Washington even after last month's lifting of most sanctions.

U.S. officials estimate about $100 billion (69 billion pound) of Iranian assets were frozen abroad, around half of which Tehran could access as a result of sanctions relief.

It is not clear how much of those funds are oil dues that Iran would want back in euros.

India owes Tehran about $6 billion for oil delivered during the sanctions years.

Last month, NIOC's director general for international affairs told Reuters that Iran "would prefer to receive (oil money owed) in some foreign currency, which for the time being is going to be euro."

Indian government sources confirmed Iran is looking to be paid in euros.

Iran has pushed for years to have the euro replace the dollar as the currency for international oil trade. In 2007, Tehran failed to persuade OPEC members to switch away from the dollar, which its then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called a "worthless piece of paper".