date:Jul 11, 2013
of the country's elections.
Dealers said the wheat buying had partly been made possible by the use of money in Iran's bank accounts in several countries which had been frozen by sanctions.
The European Union and the United States imposed sanctions aimed at discouraging Tehran's nuclear programme. Iran insists that its atomic programme is for peaceful purposes.
While the sanctions do not target food or animal feed shipments, financial measures have frozen Iranian companies out of much of the