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Iran shrugs off EU oil embargo
TEHRAN — A European Union embargo on Iranian oil went into effect on Sunday, provoking anger in Tehran which says the measure will hurt talks with world powers over its sensitive nuclear activities. Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi sought to downplay the embargo as just the latest punishment in decades of…
Spain has stopped importing Iranian oil: official
Spain stopped importing Iranian oil ”at the end of February” because of the imposition of a gradual European Union embargo, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. “We haven’t imported Iranian oil since the end of February as businesses have diversified their buying because of Europeansanctions,” a ministry spokesman said. “This is the logical fallout of Spain’s…
Iran halts oil sales to France, Britain
Iran has halted its limited oil sales to France and Britain in retaliation for a phased EU ban on Iranian oil that is yet to take full effect, the oil ministry said on Sunday. “Oil sales to British and French companies have ceased,” spokesman Ali Reza Nikzad Rahbar said in…
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