Poland can be Iran’s gateway to Europe
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“European countries have great capacities for economic cooperation with Iran, and while Iran can have serious participation in supplying Europe’s energy needs, it would also be possible for the country to benefit from such relations for attracting investment and transferring technical knowledge and supplying its required machinery. On the other hand, European countries are looking for new markets due to market saturation in their region and are fiercely competing with each other to develop their business and economic activities, for which the 500-million market in the West and Central Asia region is particularly attractive, we can read in Tehran Times daily.
Later, the Iranian journalists talk about Poland, which – being located in the center of Europe – seems to be a suitable point for Iranian traders to enter European markets. In addition, more than five hundred years of historical relations between the two countries and good memories of Poles from Iran considering the country’s support for Poland’s independence, as well as sheltering of more than 120,000 Poles during World War II in Iran, have provided a good cultural and political context for the development of relations with this country.
“Another feature of Poland is that this country’s economic conditions are complementary to the economic situation in Iran. Poland needs energy resources, oil products, petrochemical products, steel and copper and other metals, building stones, nuts, and some agricultural products, etc., and in return, the country is a major producer of mining and agriculture machinery, metal furnaces, wagons and locomotives, electric buses, medicine, and medical equipment, etc., which provide favorable conditions for the further development of economic relations between the two countries,” Tehran Times reads.
Iran can export its petrochemical products to the whole of Europe through Poland and replace Saudi Arabia in this market. Our country can also be the best alternative to Russia in supplying oil and gas to this country, especially since the characteristics of the Iranian oil are compatible with Polish refineries, and on the other hand, due to sharp political differences between Poland and Russia, they seek to reduce energy dependence on that country.
