EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete was in Tehran with a plan to prevent Iran’s economic isolation and secure its commitment the nuclear accord. EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete was in Tehran with a plan to prevent Iran’s economic isolation and secure its commitment the nuclear accord. “We hope that what they have presented to us, it will be materialized,” Iran’s nuclear chief, Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, said in an interview with Western journalists. Brussels is already lobbying Washington for waivers to protect major European firms’ business interests in Iran, an EU official said. “For sure there are clear difficulties with the sanctions,” Mr. Canete said.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 20, 2018 12:22 UTC