Commoncents
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Oh yeah and strike any 'conspirators' anywhere in Europe.
Reuters AlertNet - Iran says can cut energy to Europe, hit enemies
Lining up more and more support I see. Seems a little bit like bravado but I wonder would Europe allow Iran to hold them hostage to oil. Im not sure Iran holds quite the sway over the EUs energy needs...after all theres China,Russia, other OPEC countries,Mexico,Canada,etc...so lots of talk I think.
Theorhetically, would Europe allow its citizens to freeze,if indeed Iran had such power over them? Bow down to Iran and abandon sanctions or take it to Iran as a show of force?
TEHRAN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Iran could make European countries suffer by cutting off energy supplies and can target any adversary with its missiles, a senior Iranian military official said on Sunday.
Iran is locked in dispute with the United States and its allies over its nuclear energy programme which Western countries fear is aimed at allowing Iran the chance to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran says it is only interested in electricity.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) governing board meets in Vienna next week to discuss Iran while world powers are deliberating new sanctions on Iran at the level of the U.N. Security Council.
Iran is one of the world's biggest oil and gas exporters but its economy is suffering amid the global financial crisis and international ostracism over the nuclear dispute.
"Iran is standing on 50 percent of the world's energy and should it so decide Europe will have to spend the winter in cold," Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said in a meeting with war veterans and volunteers in Kerman, according to Fars news agency.
"Our missiles are now able to target any spot in which the conspirators are in, and the country is making advances in all fields," he said.
Reuters AlertNet - Iran says can cut energy to Europe, hit enemies
Lining up more and more support I see. Seems a little bit like bravado but I wonder would Europe allow Iran to hold them hostage to oil. Im not sure Iran holds quite the sway over the EUs energy needs...after all theres China,Russia, other OPEC countries,Mexico,Canada,etc...so lots of talk I think.
Theorhetically, would Europe allow its citizens to freeze,if indeed Iran had such power over them? Bow down to Iran and abandon sanctions or take it to Iran as a show of force?