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Sanctions Eased, Iran Gets Feelers from Old Trading Partners
(New York Times) Thomas Erdbrink- Parliamentary missions from old European trading partners like Germany, Italy, and Finland have arrived in Tehran in recent weeks eager to renew contacts. Critics of Iran in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere 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. "As we have warned, and I say this with regret, the sanctions regime has started to weaken and very quickly," Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Sunday in Italy. "If tangible steps are not taken soon, it is liable to collapse, and the efforts of years will vanish without anything in exchange."