Sanctions Eased, Iran Gets Feelers From Old Trading Partners - NYTimes.com:
"For critics of the interim nuclear agreement with Iran, Hossein Sheikholeslami might seem to embody their worst fears.
Mr. Sheikholeslami has been busy in recent weeks, since the deal was agreed to in principle, shuttling back and forth between the capital and the airport to welcome all the guests: parliamentary missions from old European trading partners like Germany, Italy and Finland, which are eager to renew contacts.
Excitement over the interim agreement, which will ease some provisions of the American-led sanctions on Iran but essentially leave all of them in place, has not extended to American companies. They remain extremely wary.
Nonetheless, critics of Iran in the United States Congress and elsewhere, who are pushing for even stiffer sanctions, have expressed dismay over the European trade missions. They see them as a signal that Iran is open for business, leading to an end of the Islamic republic’s international isolation, which they say is what brought the Iranians to the negotiating table in the first place."
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