A senior European Union official is warning that the 28-nation bloc will hit back if US President Donald Trump takes trade measures against it. EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Sunday’s edition of Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper: “If European exporters have to pay tariffs, that will become a two-way street. Then US exporters will […]

TEHRAN – Carl Bildt, co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, on Tuesday defended Iran’s right to have ballistic missiles, saying not only Iran, but other regional countries also have ballistic missiles. “Certainly true that Iran has ballistic missiles with regional reach. But so have others in that region,” Bildt said in a tweet. […]

EU’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini along with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, reaffirmed their support for the JCPOA. “The European Union has always held a clear stance in regards to the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed by Iran and 5+1 […]

TEHRAN – In a meeting with former Italian Former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema, Iranian Parliament’s General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said European countries need to distance themselves from the US regarding JCPOA. During the meeting with Massimo D’Alema, Amir-Abdollahian praised the friendly relations between Iran and Italy, adding that the two countries […]

TEHRAN- Trade exchange between Iran and the European Union countries increased 61 percent in the first 10 months of 2017 from the same time in 2016, IRNA reported on Monday. The figure stood at €16.64 billion in the said time, the same report confirmed. Iran’s exports to EU countries was €8.24 billion and its imports […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is “seriously tired” of waiting for the European Union to decide whether to accept his country as a member of the bloc. The Turkish leader made the comments during a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday, making it plain that Ankara […]

The European Union (EU) has condemned the preliminary endorsement of a bill at the Israeli parliament, which would ease conditions for courts to sentence what they call “terrorists” to death, saying the measure is “incompatible with human dignity.”  The death penalty “constitutes inhuman and degrading treatment, does not have any proven deterrent effect and allows […]

The U.S. administration’s brazen recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was met with global shock and condemnation. It is now imperative that the EU translate its words into action, making clear that it will not support U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement and will take concrete steps to end complicity in Israel’s shameless flouting […]

TEHRAN- Iran’s exports to Europe grew 122 percent in October, in comparison with the same month in 2016, European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat reported. The figure reached €986 million in October from its previous €443 million in the same period in 2016. Iran-Europe trade in the named month increased by 54 percent and stood at […]

Joanne Adamson, the EU ambassador to the UN, said on Tuesday that the 2015 nuclear deal is “achievement of multilateral diplomacy.” The nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed between Iran, the European Union, Germany and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, […]