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...development. "The Persian Gulfs jugular vein is in our hands," declared Iranian state radio. "Should an attempt be made to use the planes to damage Iran's vital resources, Iran would turn the Strait of Hormuz into a quagmire for the West's imperial objectives." Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian parliament, put it more chillingly. If Tehran bottles up the gulf, he warned, "the West will have a very cold winter...
...Iran's major oil outlet at Kharg island in the Persian Gulf. The very idea provoked a quick Iranian counterthreat. If France or any other nation intervened in the war by supplying such weapons, or if Iraq seriously damaged the facilities at Kharg island, Majlis Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned, "Iran will destroy the security of the gulf and prevent a "single ship from entering or leaving." That in turn prompted State Department Spokesman John Hughes to declare that the U.S. was "committed" to maintaining the freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf. With exquisite diplomatic equivocation...
...Iran traffic is far beyond the rumor stage. TIME has seen proof in the form of hundreds of documents provided by Carlos Vieira de Mello, an international arms dealer who worked with the purported rug merchant, Hashemi. TIME has also examined secret records from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control and papers from private arms companies showing that U.S. tank engines and fighter-plane spares were routed to Iran through Canada and Britain. The records indicate that much of the trade is directed from London...
Private arms dealers like Hashemi and De Mello account for much of the sales to Iran. At Iran's insistence, Hashemi set up various business entities to try to conceal his U.S. connections: his R.R.C. Co. in Stamford with its rug-shop front; a subsidiary in London; a separate company, Zoomer Fly Ltd., also in London. Hashemi's brother Cyrus, who was president of the now-defunct First Gulf Bank & Trust, helped finance the Zoomer Fly operation...
...Rvocco, an American who owns Ramco International Inc., a major aviation-parts company in New Jersey. Once a supplier to De Mello and Hashemi, Rvocco began arming the Iranian air force directly, and currently has large contracts with it for the supply of U.S. spares and equipment. Ramco records show equipment being sent out of the country for Iranian air force C-130s, and last week U.S. authorities stopped Ramco electronics and aviation parts headed out of the country. Rvocco insists that he has shipped only legitimate dual-use supplies: "There is not a single transaction they can trace...