IRNA - A senior member of Irans Expediency Council said the EC will ratify the FATF and Palermo Convention if the Europeans give precise guarantees to Iran. 'The Europeans are going all the way out so Iran rapidly approves the FATF and the Palermo Convention,' Mohsen Rezai said on Sunday in the Iranian city of Qom, south of the capital Tehran. 'The ...

Bloomberg - The European Commission said its seeking to launch very soon a special purpose vehicle to help European companies bypass U.S. sanctions on Iran, with three European diplomats saying the official unveiling could come as early as Monday. Progress has been slow in developing the SPV, a key element of the European Unions effort to keep Iran ...

MNA Deputy Oil Minister Zamaninia said Sun. that despite US pressure, the EUs payment system aimed at facilitating trade with Iran will be set up soon. Amir Hossein Zamaninia, deputy oil minister, said at an oil exporters union conference on Sunday that Europeans are making daily contacts for the establishment of a trade mechanism independent of ...

Al-Monitor |Mohammad Ali Shabani; By now, it has escaped few that rather than a new beginning between Iran and the West, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has become another chapter in a long saga of broken promises. But beyond empty pledges on the part of Europe, and more so the United States which withdrew from the landmark accord last May ...

Tasnim Iran will keep working with Europe to put into effect a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for international trade with Tehran under the 2015 nuclear deal, but would not stand by waiting for the EU, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. According to Tasnim dispatches, speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of a meeting with ...

IRNA - An international relations expert says that in recent years Iran has paid little attention to Eastern Europe in its policy making and needs to focus on opportunities in various fields of the region. Towhid Moharrami, a faculty member at the Cultural, Arts and Communication Research Institute, said at a special meeting on the cultural affairs ...

MNA The Spokesman of Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Ghasemi says that Iran will definitely hold Europe accountable for not putting the special financial mechanism into force. The Europeans, who are primarily to blame, must think of the consequences of their decision, Bahram Ghasemi said in an interview on Saturday, stressing that the Europeans ...

MNA A senior member of Parliament told MNA on Wed. that Iran is not counting on the economic aspect of the EUs promised trade mechanism that aimed to facilitate trade with Iran in the face of US sanctions. Speaking to Mehr News correspondent on Wednesday, Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament Heshmatollah ...

MNA The EU foreign policy chief says that the 28 member states of the EU along with the rest of the international community are working to preserve Iran nuclear agreement. We are working, as a union of 28 member states and with the rest of the international community, to preserve a nuclear agreement that has so far been implemented in ...

IRNA Iran and Europe stressed the need for promoting peaceful nuclear cooperation within the framework of JCPOA. In a statement at the end of a two-day Seminar on Nuclear Cooperation in Belgium on Tuesday, they called for continued collaboration in the field of nuclear energy. The statement said that the third high-level seminar on Iran-EU nuclear ...

IRNA - European Union ambassador to Russia Markus Ederer has assured that the measures related to the establishment of financing mechanism with Iran would yield results. Speaking to Iranian ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaee on Friday, Ederer added, 'The European Union has repeatedly criticized the United States for getting out of the Nuclear Deal ...

Reuters - European countries are finding it difficult to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to allow non-dollar trade with Iran, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday, according to parliamentary news agency ICANA. The SPV would act as a clearing house that could be used to help match Iranian oil and gas exports to purchases of ...

Reuters - Iran is still hopeful that its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers can be saved despite the withdrawal of the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. There are some ambiguities on implementation of the EUs mechanism to protect trade with Iran from Americas sanctions ... But we remain hopeful that the Europeans can save ...

MNA Irans Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on EU countries on Thursday to fulfill their economic obligations to facilitate trade with Iran in the face of US sanctions. Araghchi reiterated Tehrans adherence to the commitments of the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying ...

IRNA Europe lack of commitment to Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will result in instability in the region, Chairman of Iran's Strategic Council for Foreign Relations said. Kamal Kharrazi made the remarks Monday in a meeting with Former Prime Minister of France Dominique de Villepin held on the sidelines ...

Tasnim Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called for European Unions effective measures to save the 2015 nuclear deal and said the EUs independence in the face of US sanctions would also serve the interests of European countries. Following the nuclear deal known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), economic cooperation between Iran ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on European countries to accelerate their efforts to preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from which the US has withdrawn. In a radio interview on Saturday, Zarif complained about the slow pace of Europe in taking measures to save the JCPOA, urging accelerated efforts ...

MNA Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that its time for EU to pace the creation of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for financial transaction with Iran. Noting that European countries have expressed readiness to counter the US sanctions, Araghchi said Iran hopes that Europeans speed up the ...

Press TV - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says European countries must be ready to bear the expensesif they want to safeguard their long-term interests in the face of the United States law-breaking behavior after quitting a nuclear deal with Iran. Zarif made the remarks while addressing reporters in Tehran on Monday after attending ...

The Wall Street Journal - The French, British and German governments have told Iran they are exploring activating accounts for the Iranian central bank with their national central banks in a bid to open a financial channel to keep alive the Iranian nuclear deal, according to several European officials. The move is the first concrete sign that Europe ...