In response to a question about why Georgia had not joined the new EU sanctions against Iran, Tengiz Sharmanashvili, a representative of Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party in the parliament of Georgia, said Tbilisi’s accession to any resolution or the adoption of any action in the field of international policy is determined solely based on one criterion: Does it serve Georgia’s interests at that particular time?
If a decision conflicts with Georgia’s interests, it simply does not matter to us whose interests it serves, he added.
Sharmanashvili also referred to Turkey and Serbia, noting that these two countries, despite their EU candidate status, have also not joined the new sanctions against Iran.
The new EU sanctions package against the Iranian people included three decisions:

Amending the sanctions list concerning Iran, including the removal and addition of certain individuals and updating information on one entity,
Extending/amending sanctions related to Iran’s military support for armed groups active in Russia, the Middle East, and the Red Sea, and
Adding six Iranian individuals to the sanctions list for human rights violations.

Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Ukraine aligned themselves with these measures, but Georgia, Turkey, and Serbia did not join them.
Recently, Georgia’s government has been trying to maintain an independent approach, making decisions based on national interests rather than sacrificing its ties with other countries just to gain EU membership.
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