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U.S. government teams spent three days in Saudi Arabia discussing ways to cut off money flows to Iran without disrupting energy markets as Washington presses nations to stop buying Iranian oil by Nov. 4, a senior State Department official said.

Deputy Governor of Iran's Central Bank said according to reviewing monetary variables in the central bank, there is no decision to change interest rate.

Iran will end “special privileges” for India if New Delhi tried to replace Iranian crude with supplies from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States, said a senior Iranian diplomat in New Delhi.

German authorities are considering a request by Iran to withdraw 300 million euros from bank accounts held in Germany and transfer the cash to Iran, Bild newspaper reported Monday, citing unnamed government officials.

Major European countries party to nuclear negotiations with Iran – France, Germany and the UK - have agreed to maintain trade with Tehran independent from the US dollar, said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

France's CMA CGM cargo shipper announced it was pulling out of Iran for fear of becoming entangled in US sanctions.

"We will not be able to compensate for everything that arises from companies pulling out of Iran," Heiko Maas, German Foreign Affairs Minister, stated before a round of negotiations among the remaining parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iranian nuclear deal.

EU lawmakers gave approval for the European Investment Bank (EIB) to do business in Iran, overcoming a blocking attempt and keeping alive plans to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran that Washington has abandoned.

Iran said it’s open to resuming barter payments for oil as U.S. sanctions threaten its access to the global financial system, reviving a method used during a previous wave of sanctions earlier this decade.

A member of Iran parliament's economic commission reported that legislative, executive and judiciary powers have interaction to organize markets, saying heavy tax will be levied on foreign exchange and gold coin trades.