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...conference was held in the majestic 705-year-old imperial Hofburg Palace, but the atmosphere was anything but stately. At times the discussions were overshadowed by the bitter border dispute between Iran and Iraq, both OPEC members. And at one point the Iranian Oil Minister, Ali Akbar Moinfar, accused the Saudis of catering to "Western imperialists." Said one Iranian delegate after two days of bickering: "This thing is going to blow sky-high...
...their current capacity. They have thus lost their leverage over other cartel members. The Saudis could not convince the other OPEC members that they should agree on a lower ceiling price. In fact it took four hours of extra bargaining for Yamani to persuade Iran Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar, whose country produces about one-tenth as much petroleum as Saudi Arabia, to change a single key word in the conference's final communiqu...
...ahead with it in the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh boasted that "these kinds of pressures don't deter us at all," and sternly advised other nations to stay out of Washington's "political games." Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that Iran would immediately cut off oil shipments "to any country that joins the U.S. economic boycott against Iran." That threat was particularly alarming to Japan, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign oil, 11% of which comes from Iran...
...more than 3.5 million bbl. a day?little more than half the level under the Shah. Khomeini made it clear that no more could be expected. In fact, Iranian output has dropped again in recent months, to around 3.1 million bbl. a day. Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar says it will go down further because "at the new price levels, Iran will be able to produce and export less and still cover its revenue needs...
Tehran officials tend to scoff at Washington's recent prediction that as the result of U.S. economic pressures, Iranians this winter would be "cold and hungry." Boasts Iran's Oil Minister Ali Akhbar Moinfar: "When you have oil revenues of $80 million or $90 million a day, you can always do business." Moinfar insists that the U.S. embargo on sales of oil equipment to Iran will not be insurmountable because "we have had no difficulty buying whatever we want through third par ties." As for reports that the departure of foreign technicians has caused problems...