IRNA - British Prime Minister Borris Johnsons foreign policy is aimed at reducing tensions with Iran and developing trade relations as London looks at Iran as a big market, said Irans ambassador to the UK on Wednesday. Experience has shown that since Johnson was foreign secretary until now that he is the British premier has been seeking to defuse ...

IRNA - Iran Envoy to the UK protested to British Broadcast Corporation over news about closing Iran-UK chamber of commerce, saying all its members led by Lord Norman Lamont are doing their job by online services. A Persian language opposition website in the UK released a targeted news related to closing Iran-UK chamber of commerce and claimed that ...

IRNA Despite US anti-Iranian sanctions, western companies shouldn't close their businesses in Iran and ignore its wonderful opportunities, said the CEO of a UK consulting company. 'Companies are afraid, especially if they have business with the US,' Andreas Schweitzer told Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) and added that the US hostile policies ...

FNA - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani called for expansion of trade and economic relations between Tehran and London, saying transactions between the two sides do not stand at satisfactory levels at present. Shamkhani made the remarks in a meeting with visiting UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in Tehran ...

Reuters - Britain said on Monday it regretted a U.S. decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran. We regret the reimposition of sanctions by the U.S. We continue to believe that the Iran nuclear deal makes the world a safer place and our position remains that as long as Iran continues to meet its obligations under the deal by respecting strict limits ...

Sputnik - The United Kingdom remains committed to doing business with Iran even despite the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, Keith Wellings, the director of the Department for International Trade in the UK Embassy in Tehran, said on Wednesday. "The United Kingdom government and other European partners have been very clear that ...

Iran calls for the facilitation of its banking transactions and trade exchanges with world countries following the Januaryremoval of sanctions against Tehran, the chief of staff of President Hassan Rouhani says. In a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London on Friday, Mohammad Nahavandian added that the implementation ...

British trade officials say fears from US punitive measures is preventing the countrys businesses to approach the Iranian market. A lot of British and American banks have been fined enormous sums of money. Some of them have deferred prosecution agreements, some are still arguing with American regulators so they are very very cautious, Lord Norman ...

UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Sajid Javid plans to lead a delegation of companies in May to take advantage of the recent lifting of sanctions against Tehran. According to Financial Times, Sajid Javid will announce on Wednesday what is expected to be Britains biggest-ever trade mission to Iran, hailing the almost unlimited ...

The Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI), and the UK Export Finance (UKEF) have committed to enhancing trade and economic cooperation with a memorandum of understanding signed on March 5 to enhance bilateral trade. Under the MoU, the EGFI and UKEF will work together to identify opportunities for trade in capital goods, equipment and services. It ...

According to a former UK ambassador to Russia, British companies are very keen to forge economic relations with Iran. LONDON (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova UK business hopes to take advantage of the economic opportunities that Britain's re-engagement with Iran could bring, a former UK ambassador to Russia told Sputnik on Monday. A thaw in UK-...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   UK firms ready for Tehran oil contract conference: Official UK trade and economic companies are going to have a considerable participation in the upcoming conference for unveiling Irans new oil and gas contracts which will be held in Tehran next month, said Petroleum Ministrys director ...

Even though Irans confirmation of the July 14 nuclear deal is still awaited, Tehran is proclaiming that foreign oil companies will soon be returning to the Islamic Republic. State outlet Press TVput out a series of hopeful articlesthis weekend, including the announcement that a delegation from global energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is visiting Iran ...

George Osborne tells Financial Times that he hopes to lead a mission pending Iran honors the nuclear deal. REUTERS - Britain's second most powerful man, George Osborne, will lead a trade delegation to Iran next year if the Islamic Republic honors a nuclear deal with world powers, the Financial Times reported. Six world powers agreed in July to ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) Iran's Deputy Oil Minister for International and Commerce Affairs Amir-Hossein Zamaninia announced the incoming visit of a British trade delegation to Tehran on October 2. Following a meeting with the UK's Charg d'Affaires to Iran Ajay Sharma, he told reporters that UK is ready to pay Iran's share of the Rhum gasfield after ...

Britain has removed two Iranian companies operating in the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors from its list of entities subject to asset freeze. In a statement, the UK Treasury said Thursday it had taken Petropars Aria Kish Operation and Management (POMC) and Petropars Resources Engineering Kish (PRE) off its sanctions list. The decision came ...

[caption id="attachment_31367" align="alignright" width="221"] A recent report by Eurostat shows that trade turnover between Iran and the UK has increased by 25%.[/caption] Trade turnover between Iran and the United Kingdom has increased by 25% following a thaw in diplomatic ties between Tehran and London. Data released by Eurostat showed that ...

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TEHRAN (ISNA)- The recent statistics released by Iran's Customs Organization show that the level of non-oil cooperation between Iran and the UK have dramatically risen, and the exports and imports between Iran and the UK grew considerably over the last nine Iranian months, started on (March 20). According to the report, the UK was the 10th largest ...