US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson says president Donald Trump’s administration is not opposed to European countries doing business with Iran.
Tillerson's remarks in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday came one week after Trump refused to certify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal with world powers, and left its fate to the US Congress.
"The president's been pretty clear that it's not his intent to interfere with business deals that the Europeans may have under way with Iran," Tillerson told WSJ.
“He’s said it clearly: ‘That’s fine. You guys do what you want to do.'”
Tillerson said that after working with the Europeans for six months, “we will start a more formalized process with them now that the policy’s been adopted.”
However, Tillerson said little about the fate of Boeing contracts to sell passenger planes to Tehran or General Electric's agreements to sell equipment and technologies to Iran’s energy sector.
Boeing reached an agreement with Iran Air in December 2016 for 80 aircraft
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