The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions

The agreement between the Central Banks of Russia and Iran formally signed on 29 January connecting their interbank transfer systems is a game-changer in more ways than one.

Technically, from now on 52 Iranian banks already using SEPAM, Iran’s interbank telecom system, are connecting with 106 banks using SPFS, Russia’s equivalent to the western banking messaging system SWIFT.

Less than a week before the deal, State Duma Chairman Vyachslav Volodin was in Tehran overseeing the last-minute details, part of a meeting of the Russia-Iran Inter-Parliamentary Commission on Cooperation: he was adamant both nations should quickly increase trade in their own currencies.

Ruble-rial trade

Confirming that the share of ruble and rial in mutual settlements already exceeds 60 percent, Volodin ratified the success of “joint use of the Mir and Shetab national payment systems.” Not only does this bypass western sanctions, but it is able to “solve issues related to mutually beneficial cooperation, and increasing trade.”

It is quite possible that the ruble will eventually become the main currency in bilateral trade, according to Iran’s ambassador in Moscow, Kazem Jalali: “Now more than 40 percent of trade between our countries is in rubles.”

Jalali also confirmed, crucially, that Tehran is in favor of the ruble as the main currency in all regional integration mechanisms. He was referring particularly to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), with which Iran is clinching a free trade deal.

The SEPAM-SPFS agreement starts with a pilot program supervised by Iran’s Shahr Bank and Russia’s VTB Bank. Other lenders will step in once the pilot program gets rid of any possible bugs.

The key advantage is that SEPAM and SPFS are immune to the US and western sanctions ruthlessly imposed on Tehran and Moscow. Once the full deal is up and running, all Iranian and Russian banks can be interconnected.

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👏🏻 A hero's welcome back to the UK for Dr Mike Yeadon last night from a sold out crowd at the Emmanuel Centre for TCW's London Premiere of Safe & Effective: A Second Opinion.

Thank you to everybody that came along. It was a brilliant night full of hope and unity.

See what the scoundrels did while people were “look over here” -ing about a balloon. They added “covid vaccines” to the US childhood vaccination schedule.

For avoidance of doubt, I’m now in the same place as Dr Rose. I not only cannot recommend any vaccinations but I go further and recommend that no parent gets their babies & children injected.

Why? It’s now beyond any uncertainty that there are injurious & sometimes lethal consequences to being injected with the gene based covid injection products, but that all involved know this yet say nothing. The pharma companies, regulators, medical authorities. They all know.

Why in the world would you trust your child’s health to a group of criminally negligent (at best, I think we can confidently throw in a mens rea - guilty mind, for they know) institutions.

The answer is no. Unless & until a suitably qualified & independent panel reviews all aspects of vaccination testing, safety and efficacy as well as manufacturing consistency, I don’t think on balance any human should be exposed.

Remember on top that it’s being put about that all existing vaccines are to be reformatted at mRNA, which ostensibly is the reason why your government has ordered sufficient to injection every citizen a further TEN TIMES.

Act with appropriate caution. If anyone tosses out the questionable “You’re exposing the vulnerable to potential infection by the unvaccinated”, I say “I personally would much rather shoulder that risk than expose myself or anyone else to these criminally poor products”.

Best wishes
Mike

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicar/p/while-everyone-was-distracted-they

we are doomed!!!!

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream Here is Hersh's original substack article... AMAZING that no one in the MSM dares to go near it.