Brussels, 01/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 1 March, the Court of Justice of the EU upheld (case C-440/14 P) the freezing of the assets of the Iranian State oil company, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), which was decided upon by the Council of the EU on 16 October 2012 in the framework of international sanctions against the Iranian regime over its nuclear programme and lifted on 16 January 2006, on which date most of the EU sanctions against Iran were revoked. At the time of the...