Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has warned European airports that Iran might retaliate for their denial of fuel to its aircraft, Press TV reported.
Mottaki made the remarks on Tuesday on the sidelines of a press conference at the 17th edition of Iran's International Press Festival underway in Tehran.
"We have given the necessary warnings and if the current situation is not corrected in some European capitals, they will be faced by a reciprocal action from Iran," Fars news agency quoted Mottaki as saying.
A Hamburg Airport official confirmed in July that two Iranian aircraft had taken off from a German airport without refueling and there are other reports that some Iranian planes had been denied fuel in Germany, Britain and a Persian Gulf Arab state.
On Saturday, the chairman of Iran's national airline said that despite European airports' refusal to refuel IranAir planes, none of the company's flights have been cancelled.
"In addition to European oil companies, some of non-European companies have also imposed restrictions on providing IranAir planes with fuel, but this issue has not caused the company's flights to be canceled," Farhad Parvaresh said.
Pointing to international regulations and the Chicago Convention, the IranAir chairman said the fuel refusal was in violation of such laws in place, adding that Tehran would legally pursue the matter through international bodies.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said last week that the measure was illegal and it did not even fall under the UN Security Council's resolution against the country, adding that Iran will not tolerate such illegitimate moves and will retaliate in kind should such efforts continue.
Meanwhile, a British airline claimed on Monday that Iran has stopped fully refueling their planes for about a week. British Midlands International, which operates daily flights between London and Tehran, now has to make stops in third countries.
On June 9, the UNSC imposed a US-engineered sanctions resolution against Iran's financial and military sectors over Western allegations that Tehran is pursuing a military nuclear program.
Following the UNSC sanctions, the US took unilateral measures against Tehran, seeking to prevent the country's access to refined oil products and penalize foreign companies that help Iran's energy sector.
Tehran refutes the charges, arguing that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to use peaceful nuclear energy.