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182732
Tue, 05/17/2011 - 16:18
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Iran Warns to Reciprocate Jet Fuel Boycott
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran warned on Tuesday that any effort by the western countries to block the supply of jet fuel to Iranian passenger planes will be reciprocated seriously.
"If they are to impose such an embargo against the airplanes of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will reciprocate the move as we are already doing so," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in a weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
He called on the world countries and different international circles to condemn the measure, which is "illegal and outside the framework of international undertaking".
Tehran had earlier warned that it would file a lawsuit with the international bodies against any country which blocks the supply of jet fuel to Iran under the guise of West's unilateral sanctions.
The warning came after US Senate passed a legislation to expand sanctions on foreign companies that invest in Iran's energy sector and those foreign companies that sell refined petroleum to Iran or help develop its refining capacity.
The bill, which later received the approval of the House of Representatives, says companies that continue to sell gasoline and other refined oil products to Iran will be banned from receiving Energy Department contracts to deliver crude to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The bill was then signed into law by US President Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, statistical figures show that the number of the country willing to ignore the US sanction and warning on fuel supplies to Iran has been on the increase in recent months.
Iran and the US are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program. Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad and provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
"If they are to impose such an embargo against the airplanes of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will reciprocate the move as we are already doing so," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in a weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
He called on the world countries and different international circles to condemn the measure, which is "illegal and outside the framework of international undertaking".
Tehran had earlier warned that it would file a lawsuit with the international bodies against any country which blocks the supply of jet fuel to Iran under the guise of West's unilateral sanctions.
The warning came after US Senate passed a legislation to expand sanctions on foreign companies that invest in Iran's energy sector and those foreign companies that sell refined petroleum to Iran or help develop its refining capacity.
The bill, which later received the approval of the House of Representatives, says companies that continue to sell gasoline and other refined oil products to Iran will be banned from receiving Energy Department contracts to deliver crude to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The bill was then signed into law by US President Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, statistical figures show that the number of the country willing to ignore the US sanction and warning on fuel supplies to Iran has been on the increase in recent months.
Iran and the US are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program. Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad and provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
