Iran shrugs off EU sanctions on oil

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Iran is not concerned about EU moves to ban Iranian oil imports.

05 January,2012 07:54 pm

Iran said it will survive sanctions as it has other Western measures, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Thursday.Iran has always been ready to counter such hostile actions and we are not concerned at all about the sanctions, Salehi said in a televised joint news conference with visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.We have taken provisional measures. We have weathered the storm for the past 32 years and we will be able to survive this as well, Salehi said.--AFP