Ambassador and Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Permanent Mission of Iran to the UN firmly rejected unsubstantiated allegations made by the US and UK against Iran regarding Mercer Street vessel incident.
“Despite U.S sanctions, small and medium-sized British companies related to companies of Iran have maintained their relationship with Iranian companies, working with them directly and indirectly,” The president of the British Iranian Chamber of Commerce (BICC) told ILNA.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday, a day of reckoning that could decide the course of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union.
Oil prices rose on Monday amid high tensions in the Middle East after a British tanker was seized by the Iranian military at the end of last week.
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom Jeremy Hunt is scheduled to meet his Iranian counterpart Nov. 19 in Tehran, the public relations department of Iran's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Qatar will buy 24 Typhoon fighter jets worth $8bn from the United Kingdom as the Persian Gulf state continues to stock up on high-tech weaponry.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has announced there will be some increase in the number of diplomatic exchanges with the United Kingdom in the near future.
During the first four months of the current fiscal year (March 20-July 21) the United Kingdom’s exports to Iran had registered a big rise by 200 percent and stood at $432 million.
