Re: Poor "Jim Pennino" :-)

First phase of Iran's Shetab financial system and Russia's Mir financial system were already completed some time back. Today the second phase got completed. So now, small business bank transactions and tourism banking is fully integrated between the two banks.
So this step now takes the absence of Dollar role well beyond just facilitating the transactions for Iranian students studying in Russia and the two nations' respective diplomats.
Iran's main tourist centers, extremely popular among Russians, were the first to be equipped with this technology. Now purchases only require any smartphone running the apps.
More will come soon of course as the infrastructure on the ground gets completed for the coming Silk Road trade. It'll be huge.
Today, Dmitry Peskov (Kremlin spokesperson) in relation with the unveiling ceremony for Shetab-Mir integration, said to the news media reporters, "Relations with Iran is a win-win for Russia."
I think so is Iran's relations with Russia. And the fact that we are neighboring countries to areas where at times were Russian or Iranian, strengthens it. A huge number of people in those areas have both Russian and Iranian cultures in them, and know Russian and Iranian languages in addition to their local languages.
The faction of Iranians who're now naturalized citizens of Russia (dual citizens) must've been increasing also. Proof of it is occasional Iranian speaking soldiers speaking Russian in a heavy accent (Russian soldiers having difficulty understanding them), in the war with Ukraine. I've recently seen a couple of such clips. They still speak in perfect Persian with each other, but have a bit of difficulty communicating with the Russian soldiers who are with them. So they are first-generation Russian-Iranians. It is a very new development. And as with Iranians in China, the niche isn't going to become saturated any soon. There are Iranian-Japanese also. Haven't heard from Iranian-Koreans yet.
Generally, any Modern Human nation that's advanced, attracts bright Iranian students, and some of them keep living there after graduation, and in time an Iranian faction forms in their societies. Point is, this is a growing trend in advanced Modern Human nations and a fast declining trend in the cro-magnon nations.
Even in as neutral a cro-magnon state as Sweden, semi-Nazi treatment of Iranians have started, much like in 1980s USA as I personally recall. Recently Iran's embassy in Sweden was ambushed by Israeli and American backed terrorists, and the government of Sweden didn't even lift a finger to arrest them or protect the embassy or begin any legal procedure in that matter. They simply allowed it to happen. It even surprised Araghchi, who made a comment about that.
This is why! This is why you won't have Iranian brains coming to you anymore, and why the opposite is underway in Modern Human advanced nations. If you think this is a slight matter barely worth mentioning, you neither know your own history closely enough, nor Iran's history and the role Iranians have played just about anywhere throughout the history.
Back to matter of dollar. Trump is correct in his private thoughts. In what he does not tell you.
The United States' best options are increasingly narrowing to that of an isolated nation subject to China's whims — much like the same dynamic the U.S. dollar imposed on Iran and many other countries worldwide. In a way, America and its allies may soon find themselves more vulnerable to the same kind of economic sanctions they have long wielded against Iran, Russia, and others :-)
Now that's a piece of good news, isn't it you cro-magnons.