REWARD FOR BEING GOOD BOYS: West offered Iran $20bn worth of sanctions relief in Geneva ... Secretary of State John Kerry offered Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif the immediate release of $3bn of the $50 bn assets frozen in Western banks, as an incentive to signing a deal essentially freezing its nuclear program at the Geneva conference which ended inconclusively Saturday night. Sources close to the closed-door discussions calculated that the West offered Tehran a sanctions relief package worth a total of app. $20bn. It included ending restrictions on Iranian’s gold, petrochemical and car industries, which would have netted the Iranian treasury another $16.5 bn. The Iranian foreign minister also demanded that the banned SWIFT foreign transfers facilities be restored to Iranian banks.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:50:38 +0000
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