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EU's Iran trade chief forced to quit
By EUobserver
EU plans to trade with Iran despite US sanctions suffered a blow on Thursday with the resignation of Bernd Erbel, a German diplomat who was to run the EU's so-called Instex Iran trade entity, in an anti-semitism fiasco. Erbel bowed out when German newspaper Bild noted he had twice appeared on radio with a Holocaust-denier. The US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, and Israel, welcomed Erbel's resignation.