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Iran drops the dollar.

“Iran, the second-biggest producer of crude oil in the Middle East, has ‘completely halted‘ all oil transactions in dollars, the state-run ISNA news agency said.” Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said, “The dollar is an unreliable currency, considering its devaluation and the oil exporters’ losses.”

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