{"id":34311,"date":"2018-05-17T05:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34311"},"modified":"2018-05-17T06:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T11:01:53","slug":"dollar-collapse-coming-eu-to-ditch-the-us-dollar-in-payments-for-iranian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34311","title":{"rendered":"DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/dollar-collapse-coming-eu-to-ditch-the-us-dollar-in-payments-for-iranian-oil_05162018\">DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56180\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dollarbillburns-e1522076196436.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dollarbillburns-e1522076196436.jpg 560w, http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dollarbillburns-e1522076196436-300x186.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dollar\u2019s collapse is nearing.\u00a0 The European Union is planning to switch its payments to the Euro for its oil purchases from Iran, eliminating\u00a0United States dollar transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Just one more nail to the US dollar\u2019s coffin.\u00a0 Its collapse is all but imminent\u00a0at this point. The EU has successfully found a way to scoff at potential future sanctions on Iran by openly defying the US; and as an \u201cadded bonus,\u201d they\u2019ve helped seal the dollar\u2019s\u00a0fate.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/426856-europe-to-ditch-us-dollar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to <em>RT<\/em>,<\/a> a diplomatic source with the EU has told a news outlet of the decision.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u201cI\u2019m privy to the information that the EU is going to shift from dollar to euro to pay for crude from Iran,\u201d said the diplomatic source.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brussels has been at odds with Washington over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/trump-to-french-prez-the-us-will-withdraw-from-obamas-iran-nuclear-deal_05082018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US\u2019s decision to withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal,<\/a> which was reached during the administration of Barack Obama. President Donald Trump has pledged to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/leaked-doc-reveals-white-house-planning-regime-change-in-iran_05112018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> re-impose sanctions<\/a> against the Islamic Republic as soon as he is able to do so. The Trump administration also has had plans to topple the current regime in Iran, according to leaked documents, and it looks like they\u2019ve just given themselves the go-ahead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/white-house-examining-plan-spark-regime-change-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has obtained a three-page white paper being circulated among National Security Council officials <strong>with drafted plans to<\/strong><strong>spark regime change in Iran<\/strong>, <strong>following the US exit from the Obama-era nuclear deal and the re-imposition of tough sanctions aimed at toppling the Iranian regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plan, authored by the Security Studies Group, or SSG, a national security think-tank that has close ties to senior White House national security officials, including \u2013 who else \u2013 National Security Adviser John Bolton,\u00a0<strong>seeks to reshape longstanding American foreign policy toward Iran by emphasizing an explicit policy of regime change,\u00a0<\/strong>something the Obama administration opposed when popular protests gripped Iran in 2009, writes the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, which obtained a leaked copy of the circulating plans. \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-10\/leaked-doc-reveals-white-house-planning-regime-change-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Zerohedge<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil The dollar\u2019s collapse is nearing.\u00a0 The European Union is planning to switch its payments to the Euro for its oil purchases from Iran, eliminating\u00a0United States dollar transactions. Just one more nail to the US dollar\u2019s coffin.\u00a0 Its collapse is all but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[279,284,441,6489,588,19617,8114,6490,839],"class_list":["post-34311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-iran","tag-mac-slavo","tag-oil","tag-oil-payments","tag-rt-news","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34312,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions\/34312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}