TEHRAN – Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Tuesday that Iran will continue expanding ties with European countries. “Europeans are killing time while Iran is waiting for mechanisms to expand economic relations with them,” he said during a meeting with Dragan Todorovic, the Serbian ambassador to Tehran, according to […]
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – Refiners in Japan and South Korea are looking to resume Iranian oil imports from January after receiving waivers from U.S. sanctions on Tehran, sources familiar with the matter said. The unexpected resurgence in Iranian oil imports due to the waivers has helped push spot prices for Middle East crude and condensate to […]
TEHRAN- “Despite the U.S. sanctions against Iran, German businessmen and entrepreneurs underscore continuation of trade ties with Iran,” an official from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of Rhineland Palatinate (MWVLW) told Deutsche Welle on Thursday. “We plan to provide German companies, collaborating with Iranian counterparts, with required information,” the official added. […]
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The European Union is ready to help Iraq “deal with the consequences” of US sanctions on Iran, the EU’s foreign policy chief told Iraq’s prime minister in a phone call on Friday. “In addition to its support for Iraq in its stance on the American sanctions on Iran, the European Union is […]
Iran says it plans to sue the United States at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for sanctioning its maritime transport services. Mohammad Rastad, the managing director of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran, was quoted by media as saying that a complaint to the same effect would be filed to the IMO in […]
TEHRAN – European Commission’s deputy director-general for mobility and transport said EU is going to continue its transport cooperation with Iran despite U.S. sanctions, IRNA reported on Monday. Speaking in a two-day workshop on ports, maritime and logistics held by Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) in collaboration with the European Union in Tehran, Maja […]
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukio Amano has reiterated that Iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “We have continued to verify and monitor the implementation by Iran of its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Iran […]
Tehran writes to IMO over illegal US bans on scores of Iranian ships Tehran lodges a complaint with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) against the US over the re-imposition of sweeping sanctions, which target scores of Iranian ships as part of Washington’s much-criticized push to cut off the country’s oil exports. In a tweet on […]
South Korea says it has reached a deal with Iran to use local currencies in mutual trade between the two countries instead of the US dollar. According to Yonhap News Agency, the two countries “will restart the won-based settlement of bilateral trade transactions” using the accounts of the Central Bank of Iran at two South Korean banks: Woori Bank and […]
France Takes The Lead In Protecting Iran Oil Trade From U.S. Sanctions France aims to lead the European Union (EU) efforts in defying U.S. sanctions on Iran, by supporting the creation of a payment mechanism to keep trade with Iran and making the euro more powerful, France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said in an interview with […]