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The EU Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, would have delivered a speech at the postponed conference. Stock Photography.
A planned EU-Iran business forum is established after other EU countries canceled their diplomatic participation in the event.
The announcement comes after EU criticism of the execution of Iranian journalist and activist Ruhollah Zam in Iran.
France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday that the country’s ambassador to Iran had no intention of attending the forum due to “the barbaric and unacceptable execution.”
Germany, Austria and Italy have also chosen not to participate, according to the French statement, Reuters reports.
On Sunday evening, the Europe-Iran Business Forum announced that the event was postponed for the future. By then, more than 3,300 participants from 40 countries had registered for the three-day conference.
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and the EU Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell, reportedly made speeches during the opening of the forum.
Ruhollah Zam, who was living in exile in France, disappeared in obscure ways during a trip to Iraq last year. Iran announced shortly after that it had been arrested. He was sentenced to death in June.
The EU’s condemnation of the execution has prompted Iran to call in the ambassadors of France and Germany.
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