Infowars.com
July 2, 2012
Following a European Union embargo on Iranian oil imports that came into effect on Sunday, the Iranian parliament today drafted a bill to block oil shipments to countries cooperating in punitive sanctions against the country.
Around 17 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq move through the Strait of Hormuz every day.
“There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran,” Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi told reporters. “This bill has been developed as an answer to the European Union’s oil sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The move appears to be largely symbolic. Iran’s parliament does not hold much power and legislation rarely advances without the support of the 12-member Council of Guardians comprised of Muslim clerics and lawyers.
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If this happens we will see how much courage the US has in its conviction.
“They said any blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would been seen as an act of war”
God help us all :(