Reuters - Germany is convinced that it should enable legal business relations with Iran and is checking how to protect companies affected by sanctions reimposed on Iran by Washington, a government spokesman said on Monday.

“We are assessing how we will be able to protect the basis of our business engagements there,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.

Reporting by Riham Alkousaa and Tassilo Hummel; editing by Thomas Seythal