Brussels, 30/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 30 June, the Council of the European Union announced that the EU has extended the freeze on some of its sanctions against Iran by seven days - until 7 July - with the aim of giving longer to the ongoing negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme.
These sanctions were frozen in January 2014 in order to show the Europeans' goodwill as part of these negotiations. The deadline for an agreement was initially 30 June. Earlier in the week, the...