Iran raises oil as weapon in nukes standoff

As reported here, Iran is making more threats if they are referred to the UN Security Council for their nuclear activities, this time explicitly stating that they will use their vast resources of oil and natural gas, and their location on the Strait of Hormuz, to retaliate if they are referred.

Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi raised the possibility of using Iran's oil and natural-gas supplies as a weapon in the international standoff and also noted Iran's strategic location at a choke point for a vital Persian Gulf oil route.

"If [they] politicize our nuclear case, we will use any means. We are rich in energy resources. We have control over the biggest and the most sensitive energy route of the world," Mr. Pourmohammadi was quoted as saying by the official Islamic Republic News Agency.

Note that he said, "We are rich in energy resources". As I have stated before, if Iran is so rich in energy resources, then why do they need nuclear reactors to produce electricity? The answer of course, is that they do not need nuclear reactors to produce electricity, since they are so rich in energy resources. They do, however, need nuclear reactors to produce weapons grade nuclear material in order to produce their own nuclear WMD.

I think what the Iranian Interior Minister said makes the case against Iran's claim of "peaceful intentions" for the nuclear capability they so desperately crave, don't you?

I certainly do.