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Iran wants to shift from dollar to bitcoin
Finance
- 02 November, 2017
- 12:46
Baku. 2 November. REPORT.AZ/ Iran has joined the list of countries that want to switch to virtual crypto-currency.
Report informs citing the Vestifinance.ru, Iranian Deputy Communications and Information Minister Amir Hussein Daawai announced in an interview with Farsi newspaper.
He said that the ministry has conducted a number of studies on infrastructure development for use of bitcoin throughout the country:"In fact, the use of crypto currency in Iran is very actual and Iran would happily quit dollar-related financial system”.
Notably, as a result of sanctions in 2013, Iran's banking system withdrawn from the SWIFT system.This led to the closure of transactions with the dollar and as a result, hit hard on Iranian oil exports.
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