Defiant Iran threatens to use 'oil weapon' against sanctions - World - Times Online

Uh Oh....here we go.

Question of the day?

Will Bush nuke Iran if they the block oil flow throuhg the staright of Hormuz??

Defiant Iran threatens to use 'oil weapon' against sanctions - World - Times Online:

IRAN yesterday rejected a United Nations demand that it halt uranium enrichment work, vowing instead to expand its controversial nuclear programme and threatening to block oil exports to the West if sanctions are imposed.

In a blunt response to international concern about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Ali Larijani, the chief negotiator on atomic issues, said that Tehran was ready for a showdown with world powers when the matter was taken up by the UN Security Council this month.


'We will expand nuclear technology at whatever stage it may be necessary and all of Iran's nuclear technology including the [centrifuge] cascades will be expanded,' he said in Tehran.
The announcement was regarded not simply as another rhetorical outburst from Tehran but rather the precursor of a formal reply to the West which will be delivered in full on August 22. "