UPDATE
25/09/2019
Kuonyesha kuwa EU haitanii katika suala lake la kutokubaliana na US, sasa inaandaa utaratibu wa kufanya malipo bila kufuata mfumo wa fedha unaodhibitiwa na US katika biashara yake na Iran. Maelezo zaidi haya hapa
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FILE PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini says the EU signatories remain committed to the nuclear deal with Iran that the US has quit. The group is working to create special payment channels to do business with Iran.
EU to create special payment channels with Iran despite US sanctions – Mogherini
UPDATE
25/08/2018
EU imekubali hivi majuzi kuipatia msaada wa maendeleo Iran unaokadiliwa kufika Euro 18 milioni. Marekani wachukia.
Washington said the EU’s latest Iran development aid package of €18 million is “sending the wrong message” and apparently undermining its efforts to isolate the Islamic republic with unilateral sanctions.
“The European Union’s August 23 announcement of a new $20.7 million payment that will widen economic and sectoral relations between Iran and Europe sends the wrong message at the wrong time,” US State Department Special Representative Brian Hook said.
The US official went on to claim that Tehran will gratefully take the EU money and use it to “conduct assassinations in those very European countries.”
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UPDATE
07/08/2018
Mambo yameiva, EU imesema itaziadhibu kampuni za Ulaya zitakazotii masharti ya US.
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European companies doing business with Iran could soon find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Should they comply with US sanctions and abandon Tehran, they may in turn face sanctions in their home EU.
EU will punish own companies if they comply with US sanctions on Iran, says Mogherini aide
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06/08/2018
EU imekataa kuidhinisha vikwazo dhidi ya Irani vilivyowekwa kibabe na US. Na EU imesema makampuni yake hayataguswa na mashinikizo ya vikwazo vya US kwa mwamvuli wa EU. Kuonyesha wameivimbia kweli kweli wame'washa' na wataanza ku'puliza' kitu kinaitwa 'Blocking Statute' kesho. Hii kitu inakinga makampuni ya EU na bughudha za Marekani katika biashara zao. Maelezo ya Kina haya hapa chini
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The European Union is enforcing the so-called Blocking Statute to protects its firms operating in Iran from the looming US sanctions against the country.
The first round of renewed US sanctions will take effect on Tuesday after midnight US Eastern time with the harshest sanctions expected to return in early November.
The European Commission has stated that despite US sanctions, European companies will continue doing legal business in Iran under the protection from Brussels.
“The lifting of nuclear-related sanctions is an essential part of the deal – it aims at having a positive impact not only on trade and economic relations with Iran, but most importantly on the lives of the Iranian people. We are determined to protect European economic operators engaged in legitimate business with Iran, in accordance with EU law and with UN Security Council resolution 2231,” the European Commission stated on Monday.
"This is why the European Union’s updated Blocking Statute enters into force on 7 August to protect EU companies doing legitimate business with Iran from the impact of US extra-territorial sanctions," it added.
Brussels announced back in May that it would enable the Blocking Statute starting from August. The law was first adopted in 1996 and forbids EU companies from complying with the extraterritorial effects of US sanctions. It allows companies to recover damages arising from such sanctions, and nullifies the effect in the EU of any foreign court judgements based on them.
EU blocking US sanctions against Iran to protect European companies
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