MNA � Over the past days we heard news about the European Union�s 18 million euro aid to Iran (the JCPOA). The EU in an announcement said this was part of a greater package of 50 million euros.







EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini explained �this new package will widen economic and sectoral relations in areas that are of direct benefit to our citizens.�

There is, however, the question what purpose this so-called �support aid� serves. At a time when the EU, and the European troika (Germany, the UK, and France) in particular, have adopted a targeted delay in offering the final European-proposed package to Iran, what does their propaganda on this recent move indicate?

The noteworthy point is that Mogherini has talked of the EU�s commitment to cooperate with Iran! Has the EU�s foreign policy chief forgotten about the bloc�s last year accompanying the Trump administration for changing the JCPOA? Everybody remembers that European officials right up to Trump�s withdrawal from the JCPOA were unanimous with the US�in agreement with the US president�s unjust and illegal conditions for �changing the JCPOA�.

After the US�left the JCPOA also, European officials, instead of taking practical measures to preserve the nuclear deal, they used it as a tool to cover their clandestine deals with Washington. The targeted delay in the EU�s delivering a proposed package for the JCPOA can also be looked at through this lens.

Now once again, in a humiliating move, European officials have refrained from performing their least duties in preserving the JCPOA by allocating a very small sum to our country as a show of their commitment to Iran. No doubt the Iranian nation has no need to such money from the Europeans.

During the talks between Iran and the members of the 5+1, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif famously told Mogherini �Never threaten an Iranian.�

Maybe now it is the time to once more remind Europeans of their repeated lack of commitment and tell them: Never humiliate an Iranian!