Iran threatens to use oil as weapon

Iran has threatened to use “oil as a weapon” against the West if the issue of its uranium enrichment is referred to the United Nations Security Council, the only sanctioning organ of the world body.

“Some European countries and America are using the Security Council as a threat. They threaten us so that we give up our rights,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview to be published in the upcoming issue of the Time magazine.