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The procedure followed by the House and Senate select committees, which are sitting as a joint body, resembled a good-cop-tough-cop routine. Secord was first questioned for two days by John Nields, counsel for the House panel, who for the most part tried simply to elicit the former...
The Portuguese government had other ideas. Anxious to prop up its shaky , domestic arms industry, Portugal has lifted all strictures against arms sales to Iran or its enemy Iraq. Insisting that Gretl's shipment was legal and should be delivered to Iran, the Lisbon government refused to let Gretl's...
The Portuguese arms shipment might never have come to light had the weapons been transported as originally planned aboard Adonis, a freighter of Panamanian registry. Panama, like Portugal, has no strictures on arms sales or shipments to Iran. But Adonis was already on its way to Iran, reportedly laden with...
Portuguese newspapers have since claimed that Spain's Socialist government has countenanced the delivery of 175,000 tons of war materiel to Iran. The cargo was sent by Spain through Portugal after Madrid made direct shipments to Iran illegal in September 1986. Lisbon claims the Spaniards must have known what...
Charges of clandestine arms sales to Iran have also touched a sore nerve in France, but for a different reason: the French are among the principal arms suppliers for Iraq, and as a by-product of that political tilt, the government has embargoed shipments to Iraq's neighboring enemy. France...