NCRI - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has intervened to stop billions of euros of oil payments from reaching Iranian accounts via Germany, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Citing government sources, Handelsblatt business daily said Germany will no longer authorise its central bank, the Bundesbank, to clear the payments headed to Hamburg-based EIH.
According to Reuters, the apparent reversal has not come without a cost for German companies, which according to Handelsblatt now face hundreds of millions of dollars in bills outstanding for products ordered from Iran.
Reuters added, “The move will increase pressure on Tehran, already under a series of U.N sanctions for refusing to freeze its uranium enrichment program.”
NCRI - Egypt will not be ruled by another Khomeini, the country's military said on Monday, in reference to the founder of the Iranian theocracy.
NCRI - State-run news agency Fars - April 5,reported , A member of the Energy Committee of the mullahs’ parliament disclosed that subsequent to removing fuel from the Bushehr nuclear facilities, its operation is now delayed for another year.
