PARIS (AFP) – France's foreign minister said in an interview Wednesday he was not in favor of plans mooted by some U.S. lawmakers to impose fuel sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program.

""I think this is a bit dangerous,"" Bernard Kouchner told the International Herald Tribune.
Kouchner, speaking in New York, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly, warned that a fuel blockade would harm the Iranian people, ""and mainly poor people.""
French officials however said their government had not yet decided its position on such a measure, the paper said, adding that analysts believed that if France came out against fuel sanctions the idea would probably be dropped.
The UN Security Council has already imposed three sets of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to freeze its uranium enrichment activities.
U.S. lawmakers have been pushing President Barack Obama to squeeze Iran by targeting its heavy reliance on petrol imports.