...they should've done this years ago (I know SA did it on the 70s), instead of hijacking planes, blowing up embassies, or smashing planes into skyscrapers.
Maybe the world would've been more sympathetic to their cause(s).
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Iran Ready to Stop Oil Exports if Others Do So
Tue Apr 9, 8:43 AM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready to stop oil exports to countries supporting Israel but such an embargo would be effective only if other nations cooperate, Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said Tuesday.
Karroubi, a close political ally to President Mohammad Khatami (news - web sites), made no direct reference to neighboring and former enemy Iraq's decision Monday to suspend all oil exports for one month.
"Iran is ready to stop oil exports to countries supporting Israel, but it will be effective when other countries cooperate with Iran," he told the official IRNA news agency at a demonstration of legislators in front of the Palestine embassy in support of the Palestinians.
Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's top oil producer, has said it will guarantee secure supplies, despite calls for a protest stoppage by fellow OPEC (news - web sites)-members Iran, Iraq and Libya.
Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei called on Friday for Arab states to launch a "symbolic" one- month embargo on the West to pressure them to stop supporting Israel and its current military offensive in the West Bank.
<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020409/wl_nm/energy_iran_dc_1" target="_blank">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020409/wl_nm/energy_iran_dc_1</a>
Maybe the world would've been more sympathetic to their cause(s).
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Iran Ready to Stop Oil Exports if Others Do So
Tue Apr 9, 8:43 AM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready to stop oil exports to countries supporting Israel but such an embargo would be effective only if other nations cooperate, Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said Tuesday.
Karroubi, a close political ally to President Mohammad Khatami (news - web sites), made no direct reference to neighboring and former enemy Iraq's decision Monday to suspend all oil exports for one month.
"Iran is ready to stop oil exports to countries supporting Israel, but it will be effective when other countries cooperate with Iran," he told the official IRNA news agency at a demonstration of legislators in front of the Palestine embassy in support of the Palestinians.
Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's top oil producer, has said it will guarantee secure supplies, despite calls for a protest stoppage by fellow OPEC (news - web sites)-members Iran, Iraq and Libya.
Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei called on Friday for Arab states to launch a "symbolic" one- month embargo on the West to pressure them to stop supporting Israel and its current military offensive in the West Bank.
<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020409/wl_nm/energy_iran_dc_1" target="_blank">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020409/wl_nm/energy_iran_dc_1</a>
