Trade with Iran

Trebles all round as European aerospace manufactures celebrate the order by newly acceptable Iran for no less than 118 Airbus airliners and 40 ATR (French Italian manufacture) 72-600s. Meanwhile, Liam Halligan, writing in the Sunday Telegraph following a week in Iran, salivates at the economic prospects on offer.  It is probably convenient to overlook the threat which a nuclear armed Iran was deemed to pose and that lifting economic sanctions depends upon compliance with IAEA verification that there is no cheating.  With European (French) noses firmly in the Iran trough, let us hope that the ever vigilant Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, does not raise any inconvenient difficulties over Iranian nuclear compliance!