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| China provides $10 billion credit line to Iran | |
| 2017-09-17 | |
A Chinese state-owned investment firm has provided a $10 billion credit line for Iranian banks, Iran’s central bank president said Saturday. The contract was signed in Beijing between China’s CITIC investment group and a delegation of Iranian banks led by central bank president Valiollah Seif. The Iran Daily said the funds would finance water, energy and transport projects. Iran is vital to China’s trade ambitions as it develops its trillion-dollar "One Belt, One Road" strategy aimed at dramatically boosting its ties to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Africa. In addition to the credit line, the China Development Bank signed preliminary deals with Iran worth $15 billion for other infrastructure and production projects, Seif announced. The contracts reflect "a strong will for continuation of cooperation between the two countries," Seif said. The credit line will use euros and yuan to help bypass US sanctions that have continued despite the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in 2015. China was a signatory to the deal that lifted sanctions in exchange for curbs to Iran’s nuclear program. President Xi Jinping visited Iran a week after it came into effect, vowing to boost bilateral trade to $600 billion within a decade. Although trade was just $31 billion in 2016, it has jumped more than 30 percent in the first six months of 2017. China is already Iran’s biggest oil customer and accounts for a third of its overall trade. Since the lifting of sanctions, Beijing has opened two credit lines worth $4.2 billion to build high-speed railway lines linking Tehran with Mashhad and Isfahan, Iran Daily reported. The latest move follows an eight-billion-euro credit deal signed with South Korea’s Exim bank last month. European banks remain wary of penalties from Washington for working with Iran, but talks are said to be at an advanced stage for $22 billion in credit deals with banks from Austria, Denmark and Germany. China’s new $10 billion credit line will go to Iran’s Refah Kargaran, San’at va Ma’dan, Parsian, Pasargad and Tose’e Saderat banks. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 "A flexible asset, so fungible! To push it around is just wonderful," Said Bill to Hill Clinton. "All bits and no printin' -- Except for that once -- it's expungible." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-17 10:45 |
| #5 will reportedly finance water, energy and transportation projects Freeing up equivalent amounts for the purchase of Chinese military items. Ahhhh the fungibility of money. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-09-17 08:40 |
| #4 What's that, the first day or week of sales of the next gen IPhone (made in China)? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-17 08:25 |
| #3 Already run through Obama's pallets? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-17 06:32 |
| #2 How many Hwasong-12 and 14's will $10 Billion purchase ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-17 04:45 |
| #1 Financier to the Axis of Evil. China is not going to put the heart on the Norks. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-09-17 00:22 |