With the UN Security Council approving sanctions that target Iran's shipping industry, a senior Iranian lawmaker says the country will retaliate likewise.
Speaking to Mehr news agency on Saturday, member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Hossein Ebrahimi said, "Even if one Iranian ship is stopped for security-check, we will act likewise and thoroughly inspect any [Western] ship passing through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz."
Press TV: Iran to hit back at shipping sanctions - (June 12, 2010)
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