Brussels, 08/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Union was within its rights to impose sanctions on the Iranian Energy Ministry, freezing its assets, the General Court of the EU concluded in a ruling delivered on Tuesday 8 September (case C-564/14).
Freezing the ministry's funds is, therefore, in line with the objective of the restrictive measures on Iran, the Court ruled. The EU has deprived the Iranian government of some of its financial resources - this ministry collects the monies...