The Central Bank of Iran took deliver of 13 tons of Iran’s gold reserves from South Africa, worth close to $12 billion, Iranian Bank Governor Volilollah Seif announced on Wednesday, according to IRNA.
Seif said that Iran’s delegation to Vienna had taken up the issue of the gold reserves last week, in the course of the nuclear talks. Once again, Iran got everything it asked for.
Seif explained that the shipments of Iranian gold reserves, purchased from South Africa two years ago, had been blocked due to the sanctions.
The Central Bank governor confirmed that three shipments had been returned to the central bank since the start of the week, and on Tuesday night “the last parcel of that gold reserve, weighing four tons, arrived in Iran and was delivered to the safe of the CBI.”
Around $100 billion of Iranian assets have been frozen by the various sanctions, though sanctions were supposed to still be suspended until a deal was reached on Iran’s nuclear program as well as its support for terrorist organizations and developing ballistic missiles.
Iran already received $4.2 billion in thawed assets under the 2013 interim agreement with the US, followed by another $2.8 billion that the Obama administration freed last year to keep Iran at the negotiating table.
Iran has already been able to free up some 20% of its frozen assets, around $19 billion. At best, that’s without doing anything, and at worse, that’s while continuing to rush towards a nuclear bomb.
So much for sanctions.
They paid for the gold. Not a problem.
they might as well give it to terrorists
So sad!!!
Rush to a bomb ?…. Hype….. Proof please….. And don’t give me paragraphs of ……. Israel, and the USA would have obliterated Iran by now if there was a credible threat given their technology to detect a threat….. And worse case…. Israel would have gone lone Wolf against international opinion if the threat was real……………guys……… There is no threat!
Well this can’t be good at all. It will not go to the Iranian people do guess who will get it. Who thought this would be a good idea???? Let me guess.
One must really ill-minded to believe this is all for good purposes. Oddly enough such news do not appear in German, French, perhaps English papers.. The world governments does not seem to be well aware of what is at stake with Iran. As they should know from themselves, one may do everything for money.. So they speak about human rights, human casualties, human welfare, but for money or some evil power play, they do not mind endangering the life of millions. May all go to hell where they belong and enjoy the stay there.
Insane!
Iran might be Muslims with Arabian nature but they definitely are smarter the you OBAMA or any of you of the P5+1, why do you think they continue to delay and use stalling tactics? Once July 7 comes it just will be further stretched. So far they are getting everything they want and you and the world get's NADA/NOTHING!!!!! Just more Terror attacks threats, do you see any Iranian being afraid of terror attacks like you are?
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