THEIran today announced that it has blocked supplies of crude oil to Greece and Spain. The next victims in Tehran's sights should be Italy and Germany. Thus continues the retaliation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime against the European Union, which last January established an oil embargo against the Middle Eastern country. The sanctions – decided against the Iranian nuclear program – they will come into full force only on XNUMX July.
Ahmadinejad however, he is convinced that his country's economy will not suffer any damage: “Our gold and foreign exchange reserves are unprecedented in all of history. We have such reserves of currencies that even if we didn't have to sell a single barrel of oil for two or three years, we could run the country without a problem."
Furthermore, a few days after the resumption of the negotiated with the 5+1 group (United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China and Germany), scheduled for Saturday in Istanbul, Ahmadinejad declared that "anyone who wants to undermine the rights of the Iranian people will be put back in his place and will receive a slap that will prevent him from finding his away from home". In recent days, Tehran has repeatedly stated that it will not accept any preconditions to the resumption of negotiations.
Second OPEC country, Iran produces about 3,5 million barrels of oil a day and exports about 2,5 million; on average, in 2011, Tehran exported 100.000 barrels a day to Greece, equal to a third of Athens' imports.
According to the American media, Western countries could ask Iran to limit uranium enrichment to 20%, to close the Fordo site, located under the mountains and therefore difficult to attack, and to agree to new inspections of nuclear sites. The head of the Iranian nuclear program, Fereydoun Abbassi Davani, has already ruled out the closure of Fordo last Sunday and declared that Teheran has no intention of enriching uranium indefinitely.
