Iran has Jewish population of any country in Middle East outside Israel and one of Christian communities in the region.. Iran's Armenians and Assyro-Chaldeans, and its Jews and Zoroastrians are each represented by their lawmakers in the parliament. ... ..…

In other EU developments Brussels and Japan signed a free trade agreement and the bloc announced it created a system to allow European companies that trade with Iran to bypass newly re-imposed US sanctions. . In Germany, another ‘grand coalition’ was formed between Angela’s Merkel’s..…