Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While still calling for a negotiated solution to the war, the summit communique accused Tehran of "prevaricating" over United Nations Resolution 598, which calls for a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq. The council demanded that the U.N. Security Council put into effect the arms embargo that the resolution provides for in the event of intransigence...
...center of the fuss was a French government report alleging that a Bourges munitions firm, Luchaire, sold some 500,000 artillery shells worth $120 million to Tehran between 1983 and 1986. The alleged deal violated a government embargo against military aid to Iran. The report, written by the army controller-general, claims that Mitterrand and Hernu knew of the illicit sales as early as 1984 and did nothing to stop them. The report charges that Mitterrand's Socialist Party may have taken kickbacks worth about $500,000 to look the other...
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said, meanwhile, he hoped other countries would follow the U.S. lead and embargo Iranian oil, thereby causing a drop in the price of Iranian oil and in revenue for the purchase of weapons...
Shultz acknowledged it would be difficult to enforce the U.S. embargo, since the origin of oil on world markets is hard to trace. But, he said, "while Iran is conducting the war (with Iraq) and conducting terrorism, we shouldn't be buying things from them to the tune we are.... We feel it's important to lay down our marker...
...such groups would firmly deny that they are retreating from the goal of punishing South Africa economically for its support of apartheid. For example, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country's largest labor federation, has called for even stronger "comprehensive" sanctions that would include a total embargo on trade, investment and travel involving South Africa. COSATU's rethinking on sanctions, however, is less remarkable for that unrealistic idea than for its frank conclusion that the current "selective sanctions" can have "serious negative consequences" for workers. That, after all, is an argument long employed by opponents of such...