http:// www.isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Applied_Science_Co_nov_14_2012-final1.pdf

The telexes show that the Iranian company Applied Science Co. Ltd. (telex name APSC IR) was an additional link

in the large network of trading companies, banks, and other firms that helped the PHRC procure materials and

services. Ten telexes dated from 1991 through 1995 mention Applied Science specifically

https:// www.politico.eu/article/the-women-behind-the-nuclear-deal/

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy — the office now held by Mogherini and before her by Ashton and Spaniard Javier Solana — was tapped by a U.N. resolution adopted in 2006 to act as a neutral facilitator between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group, which includes the U.S., U.K., France, China and Russia, plus Germany.

Key to Mogherini’s success in that role, according to aides, was an effort to maintain the good relations Ashton had already built with Iran.