The Times newspaper in the UK reporting over the weekend:
- Britain is seeking ways to avoid US sanctions on Iran, The Times understands
- Foreign Office and Treasury officials have met their Japanese counterparts to discuss the sanctions on Tehran, which were reimposed by President Trump after he withdrew the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. That deal had eased financial and economic sanctions on the Iranian regime in exchange for it limiting its controversial nuclear energy programme, which the West maintained was designed to build a nuclear bomb
- Tokyo has been consulted by UK officials because of its record of independently signing oil deals with Iran and handling insurance contracts during past sanctions eras on the nation
Article is here, the Times is gated
The UK and US are not BFF on the Iran issue despite all the hand-holding
