Reuters - Germany is convinced that it should enable legal business relations with Iran and is checking how to protect companies affected by sanctions reimposed on Iran by Washington, a government spokesman said on Monday.

�We are assessing how we will be able to protect the basis of our business engagements there,� government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.

Reporting by Riham Alkousaa and Tassilo Hummel; editing by Thomas Seythal