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Defying US sanctions, India to pay for Iran's oil via 5 UCO Bank accounts

Continued supplies is crucial for India as Tehran offers better credit terms than other Middle East oil producers

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A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at an oil field

Santosh Kumar and Debjit Chakraborty | Bloomberg
India will deposit payments for crude oil imported from Iran into escrow accounts of five of their banks held with state-run UCO Bank Ltd. after the two nations agreed on a payment mechanism to overcome U.S. sanctions, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Iran will use part of the deposits for purchasing essential goods from India and to meet expenditure incurred by its diplomatic missions in the South Asian nation, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. All spending will be in Indian rupees.

Continued supplies is crucial for India, a country that imports