View of the Moscow City International Business Center. Archival photoMOSCOW, 30 May. Western sanctions against Russia did not achieve the expected effect due to the work of the Mir payment system, writes the Iranian edition Resalat. It is emphasized that Moscow had created and put into operation a local system of international payments in advance.
" to meet the shutdown of access to SWIFT by the West — those measures that no one has yet been able to implement in advance. The West, imposing its sanctions, obviously did not take this factor into account at all", the Resalat article says.
According to Iranian analysts, the presence of the Mir payment system mitigated the consequences of the cessation of work in the country by Visa and MasterCard.Lavrov doubted the lifting of sanctions after the end of the special operation «And it was this factor that simply deprived many of the sanctions imposed against Russia of the meaning,» they believe. Observers also highly appreciated the decision to transfer payments for gas supplies to unfriendly countries into rubles. In their opinion, the West found itself in a difficult position in the current situation. «How to get around their own restrictions, which they themselves have introduced against Russia, so that they maintain sanctions, but at the same time not be left without Russian energy sources, which, as it turned out, will not be replaced nothing,» the authors concluded. because of the special operation in Ukraine. The EU states are seriously considering the possibility of abandoning Russian oil and gas, the sixth package of sanctions provides for the introduction of an oil embargo, but some countries, in particular Hungary, are blocking its adoption. President Vladimir Putin has said that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for the West, and the sanctions have dealt a severe blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the United States and Europe is to worsen the lives of millions of people. Read the full text of the article at InoSMI>>
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