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EU unveils 'statute' to protect Iran trade against US sanctions
May 18, 2018 10:44The European Commission says it has launched "the blocking statute" process to protect Europeans from US sanctions on Iran as part of efforts to preserve the nuclear deal with Tehran.
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EU to launch legal process to prevent US bans from affecting businesses in Iran
May 17, 2018 13:58The European Commission is set to launch a legal process based on a powerful law to block American sanctions against Iran as European Union powers mobilize to save the landmark 2015 nuclear deal following Washington’s unilateral pullout.
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France urges EU to protect firms doing business with Iran
May 17, 2018 08:49France has called on the European Union (EU) to protect the companies that are doing business with Iran as the US moves to impose fresh sanctions on Tehran following its pullout of the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Chinese company ready to replace Total in SP11 if it quits: Zanganeh
May 17, 2018 06:52Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh says if French energy giant Total decides to exit the Iran South Pars 11 (SP11) gas field development, a Chinese company is ready to replace it.
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After Iran’s nuclear deal withdrawal, Europe grills Trump’s ‘capricious’ decisions
May 17, 2018 01:16European Council President Donald Tusk has lashed out at US President Donald Trump for his recent “capricious” decisions, including on the Iran nuclear deal, saying with friends like Washington, Europe does not need enemies.
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Germany's Merkel joins European allies in reaffirming support for Iran’s nuclear deal
May 17, 2018 01:05Germany has joined its European allies in reaffirming support for the Iran nuclear deal in defiance of the US that pulled out of the landmark agreement last week.
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Europeans should make up for US withdrawal from JCPOA: AEOI
May 16, 2018 03:30Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says European signatories to a landmark nuclear agreement Tehran signed with major powers in 2015 should compensate for the United States' decision to pull out of the deal.
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Iran's Zarif says talks with EU talks off to a 'good start'
May 16, 2018 03:05Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hailed talks between Iran and the EU over salvaging the nuclear deal as a "good start."
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Trump pullout from JCPOA damaged EU-US ties: Merkel
May 15, 2018 11:47German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to withdraw from an international nuclear agreement with Iran, saying the move clearly damages ties between the European Union and the United States.
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Russia: Moscow does not rule out Iran’s pullout from nuclear deal
May 15, 2018 09:32Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said at a session of the Valdai international discussion club on Tuesday that Moscow does not rule out a scenario of Iran’s pullout from the nuclear deal.