"Tanker ships that had come to move 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil to refineries in Greece has come home empty-handed after Iran refused to provide supplies," Fars News Agency reported.
European Union, in January, decided to ban oil imports from Iran. The decision came after the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that it has launched the country's nuclear enrichment program in an underground facility guarded near the Shi'ite holy city, Qom.
The program aims to enrich uranium up to a level of 20 percent, which can be easily converted into a nuclear warhead material.
The oil embargo set to be held in the summer but the Iranian government said that they could have cut off crude oil shipments to Europe earlier and warned that the EU embargo on Iranian oil imports could increase world oil prices to a price of 150 dollars per barrel.
Iran has halted oil exports to France and England, and threatened to halt oil shipments to other European countries are like Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal and the Netherlands, if these countries continue measures aimed against Iran .
Iran supplying most of the oil to Europe to Greece, Italy and Spain, which amounted to about 68 percent of crude oil imports from the Islamic Republic.
In 2011, the European Union sekirat buy 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Iran.
Western countries think Iran, which has been exposed to a number of international sanctions, pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program but insisted that the Iranian nuclear program is solely for civilian purposes.
(Uu.A059)
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