Iran

The increase in the oil prices was a positive event for Iran. However, the Iranian regime was not found approriate by the Commission and the accession to the GATT was denied.

U.S. became the Iran first enemy, this event will affect negativitly the following access process of Iran in the WTO.

The Council enstablished a deadline for the observer members to apply for partnership. In 1995 the GATT was replaced by the WTO and Iran lost its chace to be part of the Agreement.

• Iran's Ministry of Commerce presented the accession document named "WT/ACC/IRN/1" to the WTO Director General;
• The Working Party was the body entitled to examine the application and draft the Protocol of Accession;
• U.S. and EU succeded in blocking the application.

Iran officially became an observer of WTO: the request was blocked 21 times by the U.S. with the aim of maintaining the nuclear negotiations open.

Iran submitted the "Memorandum" which explains the terms of agreement examintaing by a Working Party.

Iran has the task to answer to the other Members questions.