Iran's chief banker said the US dollar will be gradually eliminated from Iranian-Russian economic transactions, the country's official news agency has reported.
The trade volume between Iran and
Russia stood at $4 billion, which can be conducted through the Iranian currency rial and the Russian ruble, said Governor of the
Central Bank of Iran (
CBI)
Ali Salehabadi in a televised interview,
Xinhua news agency reported, citing IRNA.
The two countries have exchanged a memorandum of understanding to use their national currencies in small-scale trade transactions, he added.
In a Tuesday meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the gradual abandonment of the dollar in bilateral exchanges. Iran also launched the rial-ruble trading in its foreign exchange market on the same day.
Both Iran and Russia are under US-led Western sanctions.
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