US Envoy Spews Vitriol as 6 More EU Nations Defy Sanctions Bypass Device INSTEX & Urge Saving Iran Nuclear Deal

Terrible timing – why fund the Iranian regime while its killing the Iranian people and shutting off the internet? You should be standing for human rights not funding the abusers. https://t.co/LKS37nIu1I

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) November 29, 2019

• US Envoy Spews Vitriol as 6 More EU Nations Defy Sanctions Bypass Device INSTEX & Urge Saving Iran Nuclear Deal
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Six European countries, among them US NATO allies, have joined an EU scheme to bypass Donald Trump’s sweeping sanctions, which ban all trade activities with Iran, raising the ire of a notorious American ambassador in Berlin.
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  Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden released a joint statement relating their intent to connect to INSTEX, short for the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, a European special-purpose vehicle. The move is to “facilitate legitimate trade between Europe and Iran,” and also to make the Islamic Republic stick by the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal.
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  The news –lauded by some European diplomats– earned an angry rebuke from Richard Grenell, the US Ambassador to Germany. The envoy, whose heavy-handed diplomacy has irritated many influential Germans, found in his crosshairs a tweet by Lars Nordrum, Norway’s Ambassador to Iran.
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  Nordrum didn’t respond to the verbal assault, but the INSTEX participants’ expansion received credit from French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, who praised the “important decision” that will show “Europe’s autonomy of action.”
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❝Important decision today by six European countires to join INSTEX. A strong commitment by Europeans to support the #JCPOA and Europe's autonomy of action. We expect #Iran to return to compliance with the agreement❞

➖ @JY_LeDrian https://t.co/DHwv1md40s

— France Diplomacy🇫🇷 (@francediplo_EN) November 29, 2019

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