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...Iraq, may soon supply it with Super Etendard jet fighters equipped with the kind of air-to-surface Exocet missiles that Argentina used against Britain in last year's Falklands war. A likely target for Saddam Hussein: 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...
Japan is the terminus for a floating pipeline, a long convoy of supertankers that stretches 6,500 miles from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Malacca, into the South China Sea and finally to Japanese ports. From those tankers and others pour 99.8% of the country's oil and 70% of its total energy needs. Japan also imports 90.7% of its natural gas and 81.8% of its coal. The whole edifice of Japanese prosperity is built on those foreign energy sources...
From the outside, the brick-faced building looked like any other shop in prosperous, suburban Stamford, Conn. Above the broad plate-glass window, a large painted sign read simply PERSIAN RUGS. But inside there were no customers looking at the dusty piles of carpets. Instead, behind a curtain in the rear of the shop, telex machines, shortwave radios and computerized communications gear hummed continuously. Business was brisk, and it had nothing to do with rugs. The shop was a front for the illegal sale of U.S.-made weapons and aircraft parts to the government of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah...
...agreement contains several new provisions. Any U.S. attempt to use the bases for activities in the Middle East or Persian Gulf will require the explicit approval of the Greek government. In the event of a national emergency, Greece will have the right to suspend all activities on the bases unilaterally. Reflecting Greece's longstanding mistrust of neighboring Turkey, the U.S. agreed to help preserve the balance of forces in the Aegean...
...bill for the arms sent to Afghanistan is between $30 million and $50 million a year, borne equally by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, which are concerned about the Soviet military threat to the Persian Gulf area. Drawn from old Egyptian stockpiles (and, ironically, manufactured by the Soviets), the weapons are shipped to Pakistan by air and sea, then trucked to the Afghanistan border. U.S. officials said that the Pakistanis have been under pressure from Moscow to stanch the arms flow, but continue to look the other way in return for a six-year, $3.2 billion aid package from Washington...