Brussels will create an alternative payment channel to facilitate financial transactions between the European Union and Iran and bypass the US sanctions in the near future, the EU’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said. “I will expect this instrument to be established in the coming weeks before the end of the year as a way to […]

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, after a meeting with Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, reiterated the bloc’s resolve to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. “They equally expressed their determination to preserve the nuclear agreement as a matter of respecting international agreements and […]

European signatories of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) say that they are committed to working on, inter alia, the preservation and maintenance of effective financial channels with Iran, and the continuation of Iran’s export of oil and gas. In a Friday joint statement issued signed by High Representative Federica Mogherini and Foreign Ministers Jean-Yves […]

Reuters has recently reported that a new European Union mechanism to facilitate payments for Iranian exports should be legally in place by Nov. 4, when the next phase of U.S. sanctions hit, but will not be operational until early next year, three diplomats said. The mechanism, a so-called special purpose vehicle (SPV), is designed to […]

 EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday that the EU member states and their partners in the world will continue cooperation to make sure that Iranians and Iranian citizens can benefit from the nuclear agreement. “The IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency released its 12th report certifying that Iran is still complying with all […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that he has no plan to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Singapore. “The current U.S. administration has shown that it does not respect its commitments and holding meeting simply to meet has no sense,” he said. Zarif had visited Singapore […]

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said that European Union will throw its heavyweight on European companies in sanctions period. She criticized US unilateral policies in the international arena with regard to Iran’s nuclear dossier and said, “EU intends to support its companies in Iran legally after US pullout from Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said that a letter by Pompeo and Mnuchin indicated nothing new about US policies against Iran. The European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday that she was not surprised at what she found out in the letter cabled by US State Department and the US […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif and met at a working breakfast at Palais Coburg Hotel of Vienna before the ministerial meeting of Friday with FMs of P4+1. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Federica Maria Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on Friday in the morning. […]

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday that the European Union will continue supporting the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In her speech at the European Parliament, she said that the EU will continue supporting the JCPOA on the simple pragmatic reason “there is no better […]