The Guardian published an article by Kim Willsher and Saeed Kamali Dehghan headlined "US warns France against business with Iran after trade trip to Tehran."
"The US has warned France against doing business with Iran after a large trade delegation representing more than 100 French companies travelled to Tehran this week," the article reads.
"The US secretary of state, John Kerry, called the French foreign secretary, Laurent Fabius, to say the visit was "not helpful" in backing up America's preferred message to Tehran: that while sanctions have been eased, they have not been dropped, and "it is not business as usual", a US official said," the author writes
"Secretary Kerry has talked directly to Foreign Minister Fabius about the trade delegation … about how this is not helpful," the under-secretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman is quoted by the Guardian as saying, while addressing US lawmakers in Washington.
"Tehran is not open for business because our sanctions relief is quite temporary, quite limited and quite targeted," she said.
