Iran Threatens the Middle East and OPEC Countries

[Vonne]

An Iranian pro-reform newspaper says the country's OPEC governor has warned the country's Arab neighbors that Tehran will view any increase in crude production to counterbalance a potential embargo on Iranian oil as an unfriendly act.

A Sunday report by Shargh daily quotes Mohammad Ali Khatibi as saying that Arab nations will be an "accomplice in the consequences," if they raise output to offset any potential loss of Iranian crude exports due to an embargo.

New U.S. sanctions against Iran approved last month target the country's central bank and, by extension, its ability to sell petroleum abroad. The U.S. has delayed implementing the sanctions for at least six months. The EU is also contemplating an embargo.

MSNBC

[Vonne]

Well, they know how to keep their few friends by their side  :

I'm also kind of laughing at how they feel they can economically harm all of their neighbors, yet if those same neighbors take an economic advantage of Iran's blundering... it's almost akin to an act of war, "an unfriendly act".

[jafo2010]

No friends in the school yard.