At present Iran's major trading partner is with tiny Gulf state the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is feeling the heat from UN and US-imposed permits which are against Iran, Tehran seems to be at Turkey so as to substitute its import routes in the Gulf. Its routes have been crippled very much by the sanctions.

A neighbour which is near about 60 kilometers across the Gulf is charged by Iran. It is indicted that it is crossing beyond the UN-mandated sanctions and commanding further limits on exports and re-exports. These exports are originating mainly from Dubai ports under pressure from the US and the European Union.

The head of the Iran-UAE Chamber of Commerce, Masoud Daneshmand informed in the month of July that Iran would lessen its trade binds with the UAE after that the latter's result to congeal 41 Iranian bank accounts. It is claimed that the emirates went ahead of the Security Council decisions.

On Tuesday it was revealed that the decision to control to Turkey for major trading ways was by the Iranian ambassador to Turkey, Bahman Hosseinpour. During visiting Turkey's Black Sea coast he said as part of a fact-finding charge on the services.