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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sounded out U.S. allies on possible economic moves against Iran during two days of hopscotching around Western Europe. He consulted with government leaders in London, Paris, Rome, Bonn and finally at the NATO meeting in Brussels. The allied governments previously had denounced Tehran for holding...
That Europeans have qualms about further action against Iran was made very clear to Vance. Britain fears that additional economic retaliation might cause its embassy in Tehran to be attacked next. The British government has considered many options on the crisis, said a high official, but "you wind up rejecting...
Iran is beginning to find some ways around the economic measures taken against it by the U.S. The biggest difficulty has been surmounting the international banking tangle caused by Carter's order last month freezing more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. Because of it...
This income has helped Iran partly offset a de facto trade embargo imposed by U.S. longshoremen, who have refused to load cargoes on ships headed for Iran. U.S. exports to Iran in 1978 totaled about $3.7 billion a year and included 25% of Iran's food imports and most...
The Fedayan and Mujahedin are the more dynamic groups with a degree of support among the masses and in the armed services. The most persistent and ferocious of the Shah's opponents, they were brutally suppressed and suffered heavy losses. But they continued to provoke bloody clashes with SAVAK...