TIL US and the EU cut Iran off from the payments system.SWIFT, the electronic payments system headquartered in Brussels refused to cooperate, saying that it should not be used as a tool of politics. But the EU threatened the board and senior SWIFT executives with criminal charges, and SWIFT folded.

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Submitted September 09, 2018 at 12:03AM by MakeTotalDestr0i https://ift.tt/2Ns7ywl

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