Iran warns foreign firms of retaliation if quits

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Participants at a training course on 'Green Banking' organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management from February 06 to 09, 2012

TEHRAN, July 17 (Agencies): Iranian oil minister Massoud Mirkazemi Saturday issued a warning that Tehran will blacklist foreign energy companies if they abandon projects because of international sanctions.
"If one of the companies acts against Iran, we will be forced to consider the reality and put that company on a blacklist," Mr. Mirkazemi told the Mehr news agency.
Referring to the case of Russian energy giant Lukoil, Mirkazemi said the firm has reneged on its commitments in the Anaran oilfield, which it discovered in western Iran in 2005.
But he added that Iran might consider continuing to work with Lukoil "if we can adjust the content of the agreement."
Iran is under four sets of UN sanctions over its refusal to heed repeated Security Council ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment, the most controversial part of its nuclear programme.
Both the United States and the Europe0an Union have also imposed additional sanctions unilaterally.
Meanwhile, Iran blamed the West and Israel for twin suicide bombings which killed at least 27 people, despite condemnation of the attack by the European Union, United Nations and United States.
Iranian police meanwhile arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances" in the southeastern city of Zahedan where the bombers struck Thursday, the Mehr news agency reported.
"This blind terrorist act was carried out by the mercenaries of the world arrogance (the Western powers)," state television's website quoted Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi as saying.
"The agents of this crime were trained and equipped beyond our borders and then came into Iran," Abdollahi said.
"Those who planned this crime and equipped those who carried it out should know that they are responsible for this incident," he added.
Sunni militant group Jundallah has said it carried out the bombings which targeted members of the elite Revolutionary Guards at a Shiite mosque in Zahedan, capital of the restive province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
Parliament speaker Ali Larijani directly accused the United States for the bombings.
"The Americans must answer to this terrorist action in Sistan. This is not something they can escape," the speaker was quoted as saying on the same website.
"Today, the country is mourning the tragic explosion in Zahedan which was done with the backing of Americans. Americans can't come up with any excuse since they are connected with the Rigi group."