The European Court of Justice has struck down the European Union’s decision to freeze the assets of Iran’s central bank, in the latest of a series of legal blows to the sanctions regime imposed by the EU to persuade Iran not to develop nuclear weapons.
Yesterday’s ruling, against which the EU’s member states can still appeal, came just as the EU’s foreign-policy chief, Catherine Ashton, was starting the latest round of international talks with Iran on its nuclear programme.
The ECJ said that the asset freeze, which has been in place since 2012, relied on inadequate evidence that provided Iran with too …read more
Source: European Voice
