K\"ahler submanifolds in Iwasawa manifolds

Iwasawa manifold is a compact complex homogeneous manifold isomorphic to a quotient of the group of complex unipotent $3 \times 3$ matrices by a cocompact lattice. We prove that any compact complex curve in an Iwasawa manifold is contained in a holomorphic torus. We also prove that any K\"ahler surface in an Iwasawa manifold is either an abelian surface or a non-projective isotrivial elliptic surface of Kodaira dimension one. In the Appendix we show that any complex torus in an Iwasawa manifold carries complex multiplication.