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Iran threatens to cut off oil to 6 nations

Facing global sanctions, Tehran warns Europe

By Alan Cowell and Rick Gladstone

 |  New York Times  

  February 16, 2012

Besieged by international sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program including a planned oil embargo by Europe, Iran warned six European buyers yesterday that it might strike first by immediately cutting them off from Iranian oil. Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said the threat was conveyed to the ambassadors of Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Greece, and Portugal in separate meetings at the Foreign Ministry in Tehran.

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