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, William Hague, gains support from Brussels to explore new punitive measures after an attack on the British embassy in Tehran

The European Union extended its sanctions against Iran targeted 180 new people and organizations linked to the transmission line of the Islamic Republic and the Revolutionary Guard is suspected of having participated in a clandestine nuclear weapons program.

a meeting of European Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels condemned the attack against the British embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, but said the sanctions were directed by Iran's nuclear program. Also agreed to consider punitive measures on Iran focused banking, transport and energy. However, resistance remains strong from the South to a plan supported by France, the ban on imports of crude oil from Iran, especially in Greece, which buys most of its oil from Iran.

French Minister Alain Juppe said that Greece had raised "a number of concerns" about the proposed ban. He added: "We must keep this in mind that you have to do with our partners that the cuts may be offset by increased production in other countries is very possible ..."

EU member purchased 450,000 barrels of Iranian crude a day, about 18% of exports. Diplomats involved in the talks said that there would be discussions within the EU on alternative suppliers in the Gulf before the next round of sanctions was drafted in January.

the latest EU sanctions were in response to a report published in November by the International Energy Agency (IAEA), which found that there was credible evidence that Iran experimented with designing a nuclear warhead until 2003, and may have done the research.

The meeting and the new list of sanctions targets negotiated before Tuesday's attack by a mob at the British Embassy in Tehran and the subsequent decision to close the British Embassy in Tehran and to drive all Iranian diplomats in London.

Germany, France and the Netherlands have already recalled its own ambassador temporarily in solidarity and the European Council of Foreign Affairs said he was "outraged by the attack of British Embassy in Tehran and the entire sentence. "

largest customer of oil from Iran, China, called for calm after the crisis of the British Embassy, ??warning against "the actions of the emotionally charged."