25.01.2012 - 00:35 [ Press TV ]

India to buy Iran oil in gold not dollars

ndia and China take about one million barrels per day (bpd), or 40 percent of Iran‘s total exports of 2.5 million bpd and both of them have huge reserves of gold.

The report added that by trading in gold, New Delhi and Beijing enable Tehran to bypass the upcoming freeze on its Central Bank‘s assets and the oil embargo which the European Union‘s foreign ministers agreed to impose on Monday, January 23.