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EU to Move Friday to Block US Sanctions on Iran

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05/17/18
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Iranian Foreign Minister and foreign ministers of major world powers stand for a photo after reaching a historic nuclear deal in 2015 that dropped sanctions in exchange for IAEA monitoring

Iranian Foreign Minister and foreign ministers of major world powers stand for a photo after reaching a historic nuclear accord in 2015.

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The E.U. will on Friday begin moves to block the effect of U.S. sanctions on Iran in the bloc, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said, as part of efforts to preserve the nuclear deal with Tehran.

“We will begin the ‘blocking statute’ process, which aims to neutralise the extraterritorial effects of US sanctions in the EU. We must do it and we will do it tomorrow morning at 10:30,” Juncker said at a summit in Sofia on Thursday.

In Sofia, we sent a strong signal of unity on Iran and US trade. EU forged even closer connectivity and digital links with our friends from the #WesternBalkans. Anchored to the #EU means sharing values and principles: #RuleOfLaw, fight against corruption and freedom of expression pic.twitter.com/RiIDchMv42

— Jean-Claude Juncker (@JunckerEU) May 17, 2018

The European Union is trying to find ways to keep Iran in the 2015 accord by safeguarding the economic benefits Tehran gained in return for giving up its nuclear programme, after U.S. President Donald J. Trump abruptly pulled out of the deal.

The “blocking statute” is a 1996 regulation originally created to get around Washington’s trade embargo on Cuba.

It prohibits E.U. companies and courts from complying with specific foreign sanctions laws and says no foreign court judgments based on these laws have any effect in the E.U.

But the row with the United States over the Cuba embargo was settled politically, so the effectiveness of the blocking regulation has never been put to the test.

Its value may lie more as a bargaining chip with Washington than its legal effectiveness, and last week an EU source acknowledged that the “political symbolic effect is potentially bigger than the economic effect.”

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