Iran to retaliate for cargo inspections
Iran has threatened to retaliate against countries who inspect its cargoes by inspecting their cargoes. Iran's parliament has adopted a bill authorizing tit-for-tat retaliation against countries that inspect Iranian ships and aircraft as part of the latest set of UN sanctions slapped on Tehran.Given that Iran took 15 British sailors hostage in 2007, the odds of any Western country allowing Iran to board one of its ships are somewhere between slim and none.
Iran's state radio broadcast the Tuesday parliament session live.
The bill follows last month's UN Security Council resolution to impose a fourth set of sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program. The latest sanctions authorize international inspection of suspicious Iranian cargo ferried by ships or aircraft.
The problem is that the inspection provisions in the UN sanctions are not mandatory, and therefore inspections of Iranian cargoes are likely to be few and far between.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:19 PM
1 Comments:
Yup. A naval blockade is not likely to be enforced on Iran any time soon. Good luck with making it happen.
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