In early November, Swift, the financial messaging service used to link thousands of banks around the world, announced that it would disconnect certain Iranian banks from its network. Calling this step “regrettable”, Swift said it had taken it “in the interest of the stability and integrity of the wider global financial system.”
Most observers interpreted the decision as Swift falling in line with the US’s increasingly tough stance on Iran. As recently as February 2016, Swift reconnected a number of Iranian banks to its system after a four-year hiatus, prompted by a tightening of US international sanctions against Iran.
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