Alberto Rubio
Iran hopes good economic relations with Spain will continue if the European Union creates “adequate financial mechanisms” and resolves “the problem of banking transfers”, said Ambassador Hassan Ghashghavi during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
The ambassador underlined, before dozens of ambassadors, diplomats and businessmen gathered in his official residence, that “the process of growth of economic relations between both countries led to increase the trade balance to more than 2,000 million dollars in 2017”, months before that the Trump Administration would again impose sanctions on Tehran.
Ghashghavi recapped the multiple political initiatives adopted by both governments to promote trade and investment, such as the mixed commission held in Madrid in January 2018 or the visit, in March of that year, of the then Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis, heading a political-economic mission.
Finally, the Iranian ambassador recalled that also in the cultural field bilateral relations enjoy a fluid cooperation, as evidenced by the upcoming exhibition of historical pieces that under the title ‘Iran: the cradle of civilization’, which can be visited from March for five months in Alicante.
