Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Economic sanctions have rarely been successful. There are too many middlemen for supplies to be effectively shut off ?they can simply be routed through friendly countries. There is no global shortage of grain for those who can afford to buy. The Soviets do not really need wheat. They already produce more than they consume; they contracted to buy U.S. wheat only because it is a cheaper way of supplying some western and northern Soviet cities than transporting grain from central Asia. Of far more importance to the Soviet economy is U.S. corn, all of which is fed to livestock...
...banks in Algeria and Libya, which immediately redeposit the money in European banks. Says a Tehran banker: "There is no shortage of brotherly Third World countries willing to help Iran." In addition, some Eastern European countries, including Rumania and Yugoslavia, have offered to act as Iran's middlemen for purchases of machinery and spare parts. Promised Yugoslav Vice Minister of Commerce Atanas Atanasiveski: "Yugoslavia will do all it can to meet Iran's commercial needs...