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The ISNA news agency did not give a direct quote from Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari. A senior oil official last month said ‘nearly all’ of Iran’s crude oil sales were now being paid for in non-US currencies.
For nearly two years, OPEC’s second biggest producer has been reducing its exposure to the dollar, saying the weak US currency is eroding its purchasing power.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West, has called the US currency a ‘worthless piece of paper.’
Foes since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Teheran and Washington are also at odds over Teheran’s disputed nuclear programme as well as over policy in Iraq.
‘In line with the policy of selling crude oil in currencies other than the US dollar, currently the sale of our country’s oil in US dollars has been completely eliminated,’ ISNA reported after talking with Nozari.
Nozari told ISNA: ‘In regards to the decrease in the dollar’s value and the loss exporters of crude oil have endured from this trend, the dollar is no longer a reliable currency.’
‘This is why, at the meeting of the heads of states, Iran proposed to OPEC members that a currency (for oil exports) would be determined that would be reliable and would not cause any loss to exporter countries,’ he said.
At a November summit of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries heads of state, Iran suggested oil should be sold in a basket of currencies rather than dollars, but failed to win over other members except Venezuela.
Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, are vocal critics of US influence in the world.
Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, international affairs director of the state owned National Iranian Oil Company, last month told Reuters that most of Iran’s oil export earnings were in euros, with some in yen.
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