Based on the Eurostat data, the trade between the two sides fell 10 percent in the said five months in comparison to the previous year’s same period when the figure stood at €2.073 billion.

As reported, the EU’s exports to Iran from January to May 2023 stood at €1.517 billion, registering a decrease of six percent compared to the same period of the previous year when the EU exports to Iran were reported to be €1.610 billion.

The European Union’s imports from Iran also reached €352 million in the first five months of 2023 with a 24 percent decrease compared to the same period last year. EU imported €463 million of goods from Iran in January-May 2022.

As previously announced by Eurostat, the value of Iran’s export to the European Union’s member states rose 15 percent in 2022, as compared to the previous year.

The Eurostat’s data show that Iran exported commodities worth €1.055 billion to the union in 2022, while the figure was €922 million in 2021.

The EU’s export to Iran also rose seven percent to €4.183 billion from €3.931 billion.

According to the Eurostat, the total value of trade between Iran and the European Union reached €5.238 billion in January-December 2022, while the figure was €3.931 billion in 2021.

Among European countries, Germany was Iran’s top trading partner in 2022, accounting for about 35 percent of Iran’s trade with the European Union. Germany exported €1.582 billion worth of goods to Iran while importing €278 million worth of commodities from the Islamic Republic. The country’s total trade with Iran was 1.860 billion euros.

Italy was Iran’s second trading partner with the total trade between the two countries standing at €712 million. Italy exported €551 million worth of goods to Iran while the imports stood at €161 million.

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Latest data extracted from Eurostat’s datasets show that Iran and 27 members of the European Union traded €704 million worth of goods and commodities in the first two months of the current year.

As per report, Iran’s exports to EU countries have declined by 26 percent in January and February compared with the previous year’s corresponding period and it fell from 166m euros in previous year to 122 million euros. By the way, European states in the same period have exported goods to Iran worth 582m euros which indicates 6 percent slump comparing with the previous year’s corresponding period while the figure stood at 619m euros in the same period last year.

The report claims Germany has been Iran’s major European trade partner in months of January and February of this year and it has accounted for forty percent of Iran’s total trade with EU.

Germany has exported goods and commodities worth 240m euros and imported goods worth 41m euros from Iran in this two-month period.

The U.S. unilateral sanctions on Iran have affected significantly trade between Iran and Europe and it is expected by the return of the U.S. to the nuclear deal and removing sanctions, the trade between Iran and EU would get boosted.

Major European companies are reluctant to cooperate with Iran because of the U.S. sanctions and possible fines and punishment by the U.S.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has also worsened the condition for trade between Iran and EU because for months the borders were closed and the economies were challenging to survive because of the pandemic and the lockdowns.

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Of course, this has happened in the past that European countries have resorted to practical pretext-seeking actions and cheating in the negotiations but that these three countries without implementing or taking any step after Iran’s fulfilling its JCPOA duties, which caused the Iranian government and the negotiating team to be branded inside the country as being mercenary and lackey of enemies because of shutting down major parts of the nuclear industry and filling the Arak heavy water reactor with cement, have issued a funny statement where they have accused Iran of undermining the diplomacy, is undoubtedly like the script of a puppet-show.

This statement has got so bad and coming from imbecile minds that even Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who himself is a JCPOA culprit reacted in a tweet to the joint EU3 statement for accusing Iran of breaching its JCPOA commitments and undermining the diplomacy and wrote, “Have our E3 partners ever read para 36 of JCPOA & Iran’s many letters on that basis? By what logic is the onus on IRAN to stop its remedial measures undertaken a full year after the US withdrew from—and continues to violate—the JCPOA? What have E3 done to fulfill their duties?”

With a simple and honest glance at expert opinions of three famous political analysts and experts of the time who used to describe the Europeans as a “dread” even before the U.S. presidential election was held, and claimed in views of Europeans, the nuclear deal with Iran has turned into a magnifier that Europeans can see clearly their lack of economic sovereignty against the U.S. They state that the rift between Europe and the U.S. will remain with the re-election of Donald Trump.

The 35-page article of these authors at that time turned into the change in the position of the U.S. and current Europe. In this article which was compiled by David Jalilvand and Achim Vogt and edited by Sigmar Gabriel, the writers by taking for granted the victory of Joe Biden in the November 2020 election reviewed and analyzed the future of relations between Europe, the U.S., and Iran regarding the JCPOA. This article was published in October 2020.

In the introduction of this article even by taking conservative measures by these writers, we read, “Joe Biden has vowed in case of winning the election, he would return the United States to the deal, provided that for its part Iran is in full compliance to the JCPOA. Biden, while vice president under Barack Obama, had an important role in the nuclear deal with Iran.”  According to the authors of this article, following the return of the U.S. to the JCPOA, Iran will seek the removal of sanctions and payment for the economic damages because of the U.S. pullout of the deal while Europe believes the JCPOA can simply be valid through joint cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

The authors believe that Europe should mend its relation with the U.S. immediately and instead of saving the JCPOA, it should help the U.S. at any cost to begin talks with Iran. They believe Iran and the U.S. should move to reduce tension step by step and leave the complicated issues for the later stages.

The writers believe that two issues of Trump’s gradual pullout of the U.S. from the Middle East and from the JCPOA have caused a power vacuum in the region and it is misused by powers like Russia. In the meantime, European signatories of the JCPOA have strived to save it from full collapse. They also claim that European Union because of the U.S. has been unable to help Iran economically or have trade cooperation with it.

Now with the issuance of this statement, it is observed that Europe has occupied the seat of Trump and now Biden plays the role of Europe. One should see that in which part of the history Europe has been so funny, irrational, rude and cheater. According to the political analysts in Iran, the JCPOA is moving in direction of its death and burial unless Europeans and Americans have reached this conclusion to return to the diplomatic logic and to compensate their shortcomings and to resume its delayed actions and pay damages to Iran, and continue the genuine measures of verification that the Supreme Leader of Iran has defined it as a protocol for the country in order that perhaps a semi-live is blown into the body of this dying patient (JCPOA) and its revival in a repentance climate of the West regarding its deceiving and cheating performance.

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Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi announced on Sunday that the new EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will visit Iran on February 3 for the first time after taking office.

According to Mousavi, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) is planned to hold meetings with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other senior Iranian officials during his trip to Tehran.

Josep Borrell, Spain’s former foreign minister and ex-Speaker of the European Parliament, replaced Federica Mogherini as the new EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in late 2019.

On January 16, Borrell met with Zarif for the first time after assuming the new post.

In the meeting, held on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue conference in New Delhi, India, Zarif urged the European countries to meet their commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and correct their mistakes in dealing with Iran.

The top Iranian diplomat also provided evidence, in an outspoken manner, for the mistakes and inaction on part of the three European members of the JCPOA (France, Britain, and Germany) and their failure to honor their commitments.

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“There is no hope for implementation of the JCPOA by the Europeans. In fact, the U.S., Britain, France and Germany have agreed on partitioning mission of weakening the Islamic Republic. INSTEX lacks locomotive engine too,” Amir Abdollahian wrote on his Twitter account, the Persian language website of Sputnik reported on Saturday.

He added “Iran needs an act to conduct fundamental reform” in view of “sanctions and economic terrorism atmosphere.”

INSTEX – Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges – is supposed to be a financial channel and a special mechanism for transferring money in spite of U.S. sanctions on Iran. Its objective is to facilitate Iran’s transactions with European companies.

After months of delay on January 31, France, Germany and Britain finally announced the creation of INSTEX, a special purpose vehicle aimed at facilitating legitimate trade between European economic operators and Iran.

The European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said INSTEX will support legitimate European trade with Iran.

In May 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled Washington out of the JCPOA and ordered reimposition of sanctions against Iran. The first round of sanctions went into force on August 6 and the second round, which targets Iran’s oil exports and banks, were snapped back on November 4.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 16, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged European powers Germany, France, and Britain to follow Washington in withdrawing from the deal and to “stop undermining U.S. sanctions.”

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 A senior member of Iranian Parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi casted doubt on the effectiveness of talks unless European countries commit that they would guarantee buying Iran’s oil and continuing trade.

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