August 5, IFIF public relation- Three Iranian companies name had been removed from the list of sanctions and asset freezes against those parties will no longer be in force.

Based on EU announcement, the three companies of the welfare services institute of the Islamic Republic Shipping Lines(IRISL), the IRISL Multimodal Transport Company, and Leading Maritime PTE Co. are removed from the sanctions list and the ruling for the consolidated list of asset freeze of these companies is no longer valid and cooperation with these companies is allowed.

After Vienna nuclear accord , the companies had been removed from the US sanctions list, but EU opposed the rule lifting the sanction against the companies in 2013, in the end in March 2015 the rule was confirmed by the General Court of the European Union.