December 18: During a press conference, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki states that Iran supports the free flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, but reserves the option of closing off the shipping route if it is threatened.
He head of International Institute for Caspian Studies (IICS), associate professor of energy policy at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and a senior associate of the Belfer Center's International Security Program at Harvard University and Wilhelm Fellow at MIT's CIS.
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