2000年10月,萨达姆·侯赛因开始用欧元替代美元结算石油交易,但2003年美国的入侵让伊拉克石油工业稳稳地回到以美元计价的支付方式。
In October 2000, Saddam Hussein sought to switch Iraq's oil trade from the dollar to the euro. But the U.S. invasion of 2003 put the country's oil industry safely back into dollar denomination.