‘Iranian parliament’s response to EU oil embargo natural’

TEHRAN, Feb. 8 (MNA) – The Iranian parliament’s response to European Union’s oil embargo against Tehran is “natural”, a Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday. The parliament is working out a plan to halt Iran’s oil exports to the European countries that voted for sanctions on Iran’s oil industry. “I think that the people of European countries will be harmed more than anyone else, and it is a matter of regret and surprise that officials of European countries, without taking the condition of the people of their own countries into consideration, take a path of putting pressure on the people,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a regular news briefing. “Entering the political games of U.S. officials and succumbing to their pressure put European countries on the path which endangers their own people’s security and welfare.”