With sanctions pressures starting to fade, a representative from oil-rich Iran said the financial doors for cooperating with Russia were starting to open. Iranian and Russian interests have aligned in the military effort to stem the tide of civil war in Syria, with Russian warplanes leaving from Iranian facilities in recent weeks. Negar Kabiri, an envoy for Iranian business interests in Russia, said monetary transactions between the two countries were now imminent . “The monetary transactions between two Iranian and Russian banks will start soon,” Kabiri said. Two years ago, when the sanctions noose was tightening on Tehran, Iran and Russia, itself under financial pressures, were reviewing the potential for an oil-for-goods deal. Iran at the time was cleared to export around 1 million barrels of oil per day […]