As he noted in an interview with TASS, the unjustified blocking of all Russian customers by the largest international card payment systems increased the priority of expanding the geography of using MIR cards.
“We are actively working in this direction... Negotiations with Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, India, China, Cuba, Myanmar, Nigeria, Thailand and other countries are at different stages,” Pankin said.
Earlier, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Mehdi Safari said that the Iranian side has the technical ability to join the MIR payment system within a few months.