A senior Iranian official has dismissed a recent report that European banks had asked Iran to provide guarantees to compensate for possible future penalties imposed by the US for resuming banking activities with Iran. Text from IRNA, translated by IFP.
Certain Iranian media outlets earlier claimed that European banks had set preconditions for resuming banking ties with Iran.
“It is nonsensical to talk about guarantees in banking transactions,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said on whether European banks had spoken of any guarantee for resuming ties with Iranian partners.
“This has nothing to do with Iran… The two sides try to contact each other and work together. If the cooperation is economically suitable, they will pursue it, and if not, they won’t,” he told.
“In these fields, only the economic components are considered. Any request for such guarantees is nonsense.”
For more news and views on this story, see:
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has stated Iran and Russia should promote…
Aid groups working in the Gaza Strip were hit by Israeli strikes even after coordinating…
Iranian football team Sepahan’s Portuguese coach Jose Morais announced that he has converted from Christianity…
Palestinian group Hamas has announced it remains committed to achieving an agreement with Israel to…
The vast amount of rubble including unexploded ordnance left by Israel's devastating war in the…
ABC News reported that the United States decided that three Israeli army units accused of…