There is ground for optimism that other European countries as well as Russia and China will later join a financial system for trade with Iran that currently involves France, Germany and Britain, a former diplomat said.
“Germany, France and Britain are major economic, political and diplomatic powers in the European Union. These countries can definitely bring other European states on board in the next stage and even encourage other countries, particularly China and Russia, to trade with Iran using the same mechanism,” Abdolreza Faraji-Rad also told the Iranian diplomacy website in a recent interview.