DUBAI: Iran known as on Saturday for European assurances of beef up in the face of Washington's intent to reimpose sanctions on vital Iranian oil sales to pressure Tehran to curb its nuclear, missile and regional activities.
Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke via phone with the European Union's overseas coverage chief, Federica Mogherini, and his opposite numbers from Germany, Sweden and Denmark about European measures to counter america sanctions, the Iranian state information agency IRNA reported.
"Mogherini and the European ministers ... highlighted the importance of the finance ministers' commitment to Europe's financial mechanism to save the Iran nuclear deal and said the mechanism will be operational in the coming days," IRNA stated.
Washington will reapply far-reaching sanctions on Iran's petroleum and banking sectors beginning on Monday.
Diplomats advised Reuters remaining week that the brand new EU mechanism to facilitate bills for Iranian exports must be legally in position via November four, when the following segment of US sanctions hit, however might not be operational until early subsequent year.
The EU, France, Germany and Britain, stated in a joint remark on Friday they regretted US President Donald Trump's choice to revive sanctions on Iran, the sector's No. three oil exporter.
"Our aim is to protect European economic actors who have legitimate commercial exchanges with Iran, in line with European legislation and the United Nations' Security Council resolution 2231," Mogherini and the overseas ministers and finance ministers of the three international locations stated of their remark.
The three greatest European powers are co-signatories, together with Russia and China, to a global 2015 care for Iran that reined in its nuclear paintings in trade for the lifting of most global sanctions on Tehran.
With the sanctions clampdown, Trump is seeking to push Iran into stricter curbs on its nuclear programme and a halt to its missile construction activity and beef up for proxy forces in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Trump denounced the nuclear deal, signed sooner than he took place of business, as incorrect in Iran's favour and withdrew Washington from the pact in May.
Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported that the Islamci Republic had started manufacturing of the locally-designed Kowsar fighter airplane to be used in its air pressure.
Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke via phone with the European Union's overseas coverage chief, Federica Mogherini, and his opposite numbers from Germany, Sweden and Denmark about European measures to counter america sanctions, the Iranian state information agency IRNA reported.
"Mogherini and the European ministers ... highlighted the importance of the finance ministers' commitment to Europe's financial mechanism to save the Iran nuclear deal and said the mechanism will be operational in the coming days," IRNA stated.
Washington will reapply far-reaching sanctions on Iran's petroleum and banking sectors beginning on Monday.
Diplomats advised Reuters remaining week that the brand new EU mechanism to facilitate bills for Iranian exports must be legally in position via November four, when the following segment of US sanctions hit, however might not be operational until early subsequent year.
The EU, France, Germany and Britain, stated in a joint remark on Friday they regretted US President Donald Trump's choice to revive sanctions on Iran, the sector's No. three oil exporter.
"Our aim is to protect European economic actors who have legitimate commercial exchanges with Iran, in line with European legislation and the United Nations' Security Council resolution 2231," Mogherini and the overseas ministers and finance ministers of the three international locations stated of their remark.
The three greatest European powers are co-signatories, together with Russia and China, to a global 2015 care for Iran that reined in its nuclear paintings in trade for the lifting of most global sanctions on Tehran.
With the sanctions clampdown, Trump is seeking to push Iran into stricter curbs on its nuclear programme and a halt to its missile construction activity and beef up for proxy forces in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Trump denounced the nuclear deal, signed sooner than he took place of business, as incorrect in Iran's favour and withdrew Washington from the pact in May.
Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported that the Islamci Republic had started manufacturing of the locally-designed Kowsar fighter airplane to be used in its air pressure.
Iran seeks European assurances as US oil sanctions loom
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