Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 7

14-Feb-2011

IRAN

India Resolves Iranian Oil Payments Issue

On 4 February the State Bank of India (SBI) announced that it has managed to resolve a problem over payments for Iranian crude oil. SBI, which in December stopped utilizing the Asian Clearing Union mechanism to pay for Iranian oil in dollars (MEES, 3/10 January), said that it would be making euro-denominated deposits in the Frankfurt-based Europaisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), also called...