Iran will respond with
equal countermeasures if the US tries to block its oil exports, the foreign
ministry in Tehran said on Tuesday.
US officials are stepping
up diplomatic efforts to pressure countries to stop importing Iranian oil.
“If America wants to take a
serious step in this direction it will definitely be met with a reaction and equal
countermeasures from Iran,” foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi was
quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
on Saturday backed President Hassan Rouhani’s suggestion that Iran might block
Gulf oil exports if its own
exports are stopped.
Already fraught relations
between Tehran and Washington have worsened in recent days.
On Monday, Iran dismissed
an angry warning from President Donald Trump that it risked dire consequences
“the
like of which few
throughout history have suffered before” if it made threats against the United
States.
Iran’s parliamentary
speaker on Tuesday described Trump’s comments as “the words of a troublemaker”.
“The United States is
experiencing disorder and wildness in its diplomatic relations,” Ali Larijani
was quoted as saying by IRNA.
Iran has faced the threat
of US sanctions since Trump decided in May to withdraw the U.S.
from a 2015 agreement
between world powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear programme.
(Reuters/NAN)
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