By bne Tehran bureau Russia and Iran have shifted to using national currencies for over 96% of their mutual settlements, while bilateral trade increased by 12.4% in 2024, the Kremlin said on October 21 ahead of a meeting between the two countries’ presidents at the BRICS summit in Kazan. Leaders of the Global South will flock to Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, on October 22 for this year’s BRICS summit hosted by Russia, where they hope to thrash out some more details of the new non-aligned global order that its de facto leaders, President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping, are h…