Iran: EU trade increases despite sanctions

Tehran - Trade between Iran and the European Union rose by 10 percent last year, despite ongoing economic sanctions, an Iranian foreign ministry official said on Monday. Houshang Karimi, the ministry's director-general in charge of Europe, told a university students in Shahrekord, in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in the country's southwest.

The EU is Iran's largest trading partner accounting for almost a third of its exports,..

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