Britain’s Osborne says wants to lead trade mission to Iran: FT

LONDON- Britain’s second most powerful man, George Osborne, will lead a trade delegation to Iran next year if the Islamic Republic honors a nuclear deal with world powers, the Financial Times reported. Six world powers agreed in July to lift sanctions in return for Iran accepting long-term curbs on a nuclear program that the West suspected was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb. Tehran has always denied seeking nuclear arms. In a signal of how Western ties have thawed with Iran, Britain reopened its embassy in Tehran last month and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said sanctions could start to be lifted as early as spring next year…[+]