Iran’s oil minister on Thursday warned of more cutoffs in oil sales to the European Union unless they show more flexibility toward Iran ahead of a second round of nuclear talks next month.
Washington had aggressively pressured the European Union states to cooperate on sweeping economic sanctions on Iran’s oil sector, and Iran hit back with warnings of preempting the sanctions and cutting off exports to them completely. Economic sanctions were supposed to be a tool of leverage for the West against Iran, but Tehran is using it back on the West in kind.
Oil Minister Rostam Ghasemi said that if the EU went ahead with sanctions scheduled for July, then “we will surely cut oil to Europe.”
“We are hopeful that they will lift sanctions on Iran’s oil,” said Ghasemi. “What we have officially cut is crude export to Britain and France. The oil sale to other countries has continued. “Gashemi urged the European states to lift the sanctions before the next round of nuclear negotiations next month, or else face further embargoes.
Western pols will damage ther own economies and hurt their own citizens to appease the Likud. It's a shame we voters don't have half the pull of our masters in Jerusalem,
Good for them..
Good for them. Let the limey and the frog deal with the consequences of their governments' actions, and maybe we'll see some change in Europe.
A previous article in Anti-war claiming the P5+1 talks were choreographed seems to come true. It looks like Iran already knows that some sanctions will be lifted, so it’s now doing a bit of political grandstanding by threatening oil cuts to EU if sanctions are not lifted..
Love the way Iran is hitting them back right where it hurts.