WASHINGTON With the French president looking on, President Obama vowed on Tuesday to come down on companies that evade sanctions against Iran like a ton of bricks. He spoke a week after a delegation of French corporate executives traveled to Tehran looking for business opportunities amid diplomatic efforts to reach a nuclear deal. The French executives ...

The US opposes the presence of European businesses in Iran as Washington eyes long-term interests of American companies in the Iranian market, a sociologist says. By criticizing visits to Iran by economic delegations, the US seeks to defend the long-term interests of American companies and keep the Iranian market from being overrun by European firms,...

[caption id="attachment_23974" align="alignright" width="180"] Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi[/caption] A senior Iranian legislator says the US-engineered sanctions against the Islamic Republic are falling apart, and European companies will not heed Washingtons threats against the enhancement of business ties with Tehran. Truth is that the high wall ...

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Planemaker Airbus said on Thursday it had not been part of a visit by a Frenchbusinessdelegation toIranthis week, the most senior French trade mission to the country in years. "Nobody from Airbus Group participated in the trip," Rainer Ohler, head of communications for the Airbus parent group, said. A source close to the delegation ...

The US risks isolation on the issue of Iran if it is going to continue threatening countries against doing business with Iran, says political analyst and professor at the University of Tehran, Seyed Mohammad Marandi. Investors are once again flocking to Iran - over 100 Frenchcompaniesdescended on Tehran on February 3 to establish business connections....

Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday said he has warned France that it would face sanctions if it seeks to revive business in Iran. In an interview with broadcaster CNN, Kerry responded to reports that French and Turkish business delegations have travelled to Tehran in the weeks since Iran agreed to reduce some of its nuclear activities in return ...

French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici has brushed off criticism by US officials regarding a French business delegation's visit to Iran. Moscovici on Wednesday said the visit by the French business figures was "a bet on the future based both on firmness and negotiation." "It's not about doing 'business as usual," Moscovici told reporters in Paris,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy oil minister announced that major French oil and gas companies, such as Total, Technip and Gaz de France, have expressed willingness to cooperate with Iran on energy projects. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs Ali Majedielaborated on the French ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team. (E) = Article in English Excerpts of these translations may only be used with the expressed consent of the authors. Politics President Hassan Rouhanimet with Ministry of Intelligence ...

Tehran, Feb 3, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham says Tehran-Paris economic ties serve both sides? interests. ?A French economic delegation is visiting Iran to get first hand information on economic capacities and investment opportunities in various economic sectors of Iran,? said Afkham. She said based on coordination made, members ...

TEHRAN Feb 03 (Shana): Representatives of Frances energy giant Total and its big corporation Gaz de France (GDF)are travelling to Tehran on Monday to seek opportunities for oil and gas cooperation. They are part of a 100-strong delegation of French businessmen traveling to Tehran for talks with Iranian businessmen. Irans Deputy Petroleum Minister ...

Tehran, Feb 3, IRNA - President?s chief of staff Mohammad Nahavandian said on Monday that a new chapter has been opened for expansion of relations between Iran and Europe. Addressing a 140 member French delegation at Iran?s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), he said Irans nuclear dossier showed that all decisions and ...

Tehran, Feb 3, IRNA A 140-member French delegation which is on a visit to Tehran to explore ways to boost economic ties with Iranian traders and economic activists as well as to pave the ground for investment in Iran held a meeting with members of Irans Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture on Monday. President Hassan Rouhanis ...

Tehran, Feb 3, IRNA A 140-member delegation from France arrived here Monday morning to hold talks with Iranian economic officials. The French economic delegation is to meet with the members of Iran?s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture later in the day. They are also planned to meet Iranian businesspersons and economic activists....

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TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- French consultants, designers and investors will travel to Tabriz, capital of Iran's northwestern East Azerbaijan province, in the form of holding firms to implement urban projects, Iran Daily reported on Tuesday. Tabriz Mayor Sadeq Najafi said that a visiting French group of consultants and designers have expressed their ...