"If US Stops Our Oil, Then No Oil Will Be Exported From The Gulf": Iran
NDTV
December 04, 2018
Geneva:The United States will not be able to stop Iran
exporting its oil and any move to prevent Iranian crude shipments passing through
the Gulf would lead to all oil exports through the waterway being blocked,
Iran's president said on Tuesday.
The
United States has imposed sanctions on Iran and U.S. officials say they aim to
reduce Iran's oil exports to zero in a bid to curb the Islamic Republic's
missile programme and regional influence.
"America should know
that we are selling our oil and will continue to sell our oil and they are not
able to stop our oil exports," President Hassan Rouhani said in a
televised speech during a trip to the northern Iranian city of Shahroud. "If
one day they want to prevent the export of Iran's oil, then no oil will be
exported from the Persian Gulf," he said.
"America should know
that we are selling our oil and will continue to sell our oil and they are not
able to stop our oil exports," President Hassan Rouhani said in a
televised speech (File Photo). Tensions have risen between Iran and the United
States after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from a multilateral nuclear
deal in May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Rouhani said the United
States would not succeed in cutting Iran's economic ties with the region and
the world. Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri also said on Tuesday that
U.S. sanctions were hitting vulnerable people in Iran.
"When (Americans)
say their target is the Iranian government and there won't be pressure on the
sick, the elderly and the weak in society, it's a lie," Jahangiri said, according
to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
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