Publish Date: 15 September 2016 - 15:51

TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) – Head of AEOI is in Brussels and has met the EU foreign policy chief on Thursday to discuss banking restrictions which have hit Iran’s economy since JCPOA implementation.

Mr. Ali Akbar Salehi and Mrs. Federica Mogherini talked the JCPOA implementation process along with other fiscal and banking restrictions which had been Iran’s major bone to break with the 5+1 in post-JCPOA era.

Salehi had also met and discussed issues of bilateral interest in energy with the EU’s Energy Commissioner and Belgian Foreign Minister earlier on Wednesday.

The prospects have been grim in Tehran with the wave of banking restrictions still on place and biting Iran’s capacity in international financial system, as JCPOA opponents mounted ever-increasing pressures on the cabinet for the alleged failure of the deal in bringing economic improvements, to which the government had responded with lukewarm attention and dedication, giving signals to more pessimistic social strata that the JCPOA had been really nothing in its contribution to the economy.

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