Fars News Agency:
MP: Iran Closes Persian Gulf If Threatened
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker stressed Tehran's preparedness to confront all types of sanctions and restrictions, but meantime said that if the country feels any insecurity, it will not allow oil shipment through the Persian Gulf.
"If we eventually feel that our economy, specially in the Persian Gulf, is faced with insecurity and we cannot use this economic zone for oil exports, we have the power and capacity to create insecurity for other countries' exports and will not allow any oil cargo to be exported," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on Monday.............