EU to take steps to protect Iran nuclear deal against US sanctions

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Publish Date: 18:12 - 09 May 2018
TEHRAN, May 9 - The European Union has moved to protect the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement by vowing to take steps to immunize European firms doing business with Tehran from any US sanctions.

EU to take steps to protect Iran nuclear deal against US sanctionsTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – France also said on Wednesday it would do everything possible to protect European businesses, a day after Donald Trump announced the US would exit the Iran deal agreed with other major powers in 2015, and impose sanctions on Iran.

EU foreign ministers will meet their Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, next week to offer personal reassurances they will take practical steps to protect the deal from US Treasury sanctions due to come into force over the next 180 days, Guardian reported.

“The international reach of US sanctions makes the US the economic policeman of the planet, and that is not acceptable,” the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, told France Culture radio on Wednesday.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, would also speak with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, by telephone on Wednesday afternoon about “our wish to stay in the agreement”, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, told RTL radio.

“Iran needs to continue its determination to remain in the pact in return for economic benefits that the Europeans will try to preserve,” he added.

EU foreign ministers sharply criticized Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal altogether, saying his decision had made the world less secure, Guardian reported.

 

 

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