Iran's Barter Deal With Iraq Denied

Hamid Hosseini, a board member of Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Association,  has denied a report by Reuters claiming that Tehran has accepted to buy Iraqi food products in exchange for natural gas and energy supplies.
"In exchange for the gas Iraq is to pay with food and humanitarian items to Iran ... Iran accepted this proposal," Reuters quoted two Iraqi sources, a senior government official and a member of Iraq’s ministerial energy committee, as saying on Wednesday.
"The war-stricken Arab neighbor meets a part of its own food demand by importing from Iran. Buying such products from Iraq is apparently out of the question,"