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Wednesday, June 6, 2018
France, Germany, Britain formally request exemptions from US Iran sanctions
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrance, Britain, Germany and the EU send the United States a joint official request for their companies to be exempt from punitive measures resulting from fresh US sanctions on Iran.
“As allies, we expect that the United States will refrain from taking action to harm Europe’s security interests,” says the letter to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire says the three countries and the EU were asking the US “to exempt European businesses doing legitimate trade in Iran from all extraterritorial American sanctions.”
The plea comes as European leaders scramble to save the deal signed between Iran and world powers in 2015 under which Tehran agreed to limits on its nuclear capacities in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions.
— AFP
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