Iran threatens retaliation over oil embargo
By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN | Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:37am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran‘s supreme leader threatened on Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a U.S. newspaper said defense secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s defiant televised speech marking the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution was the…
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Iran warns of retaliation over oil sanctions
By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN | Fri Feb 3, 2012 6:12am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday Iran would retaliate over Western-backed oil sanctions and any threat of attack, after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was cited as saying he feared a possible Israeli strike as early as April. Khamenei’s defiant speech to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution was the first…
Iran’s Khamenei warns over military strike, oil embargo threat
TEHRAN | Fri Feb 3, 2012 4:49am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran‘s oil exports. “Threatening Iran and attacking Iran will harm America … Sanctions will not have any impact on our determination to continue our nuclear course … In response to…
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China intensifies criticism of sanctions on Iran
BEIJING | Thu Feb 2, 2012 8:12pm EST BEIJING (Reuters) – A top Chinese newspaper stepped up Beijing‘s opposition to a Western push for tighter sanctions against Iran, warning Friday that tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program are hurting energy markets and could stifle the global economic recovery. China‘s criticism of tighter sanctions on Iran, designed to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, appeared in the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of…
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Israel says Iran has material for four A-bombs
By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM | Thu Feb 2, 2012 9:45am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel estimated on Thursday that Iran could make four atomic bombs by further enriching uranium it has already stockpiled, and could produce its first within a year of deciding to build one. But in his rare public remarks, Major-General Aviv Kochavi, chief of military intelligence, held out the possibility stronger international sanctions might dissuade Tehran from…