Per Fischer, the former German banker who has been appointed to run the European special payment channel INSTEX, has arrived in Iran for a second time in a bid to iron out the details of the financial mechanism.
Parvaneh Mafi, a lawmaker from the Iranian capital Tehran, has held high-level talks with Finnish officials on a wide range of issues, especially economic. She says Helsinki should be a shareholder in INSTEX.
High-level Russian and Dutch officials have said that their countries are very keen on maintaining trade with Iran through the INSTEX mechanism.
The Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI) says the MoUs will facilitate the transaction of first financial dealings between Iran and Europe within INSTEX and its Iranian counterparty STFI.
The two Iranian and European companies are laying the groundwork for realising the first financial transaction months after they were created.
Madrid says PM Sánchez is considering plans on how to join the E3 in the financial channel with Iran that has been created to allow humanitarian trade and other items in the future.
Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Eduard Muřický says INSTEX is not functional yet so Prague needs to look for other ways of keeping up trade with Iran.
Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says Europe should stop accusing Iran of not setting up INSTEX mirror company and start action by buying Iranian crude and giving credit line to European exporters for starting trade with Iran.
Special Trade and Finance Instrument between Iran and Europe (STFI), called SATMA in Persian, was registered on 22 April in Tehran in a bid to further facilitate Iran-Europe trade in the wake of US sanctions.
The European payment channel president Per Fischer has talked about what could be done with the mechanism’s framework to speed up trade with Iran in the face of US sanctions.