text: what does iran mean when it says...? "iran warned the united states on wednesday it could inflict 'harm and pain' to match whatever punishment washington persuaded the u.n. security council to dole out for tehran's refusal to halt atomic research."   what do they mean by that? do i need to clean out the old bomb shelter?  http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iran probably that they will cut oil production. not much they can do otherwise. of course they can continue with what they are doing already.. plotting attacks against our people. but, since they are doing that already (or sponsoring it), the only "pain" they can cause is to slow oil production.    we are not direct buyers of their crude, but the eu is, thus, we would be effected.