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context: Well done, next business partners are Afghanistan, North Korea, Venezuela, and Russia >
  
  EU might need to reconsider increasing trade with Iran with clerics cracking down on its citizen and executing British national on flimsy charge. >
  
  ....they'll just increase the trade since Iran is their 2nd favorite ME state after Israel (because they act like a big scary boogeyman for the rich Gulf states) >
  
  I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but I kind of believe this as well. Having a hostile government on the gulf keeps the gulf states buying loads of weapons and hosting US bases. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 54%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Eurostat figures showed that total trade between Iran and 27 members of the EU stood at 4.715 billion euros over the 11 months to November 2022.
  Germany was the largest EU exporter to Iran in the 11 months to November 2022 with 1.465 billion euros worth of shipments or 39% of the total EU exports to Iran over the period, figures by the Eurostat showed.
  EU's imports from Iran increased 20% year on year in the 11 months to November last year to reach 976 million euros, according to the Eurostat figures which indicated that the bloc had imported 812 million euros worth of commodities from Iran over the same period in 2021.
  
  
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