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...London-based Lloyd's shipping underwriters said the 101,977-ton Felicity was bound for Iran's Kharg Island terminal to take a shipment of crude oil when it was attacked and set on fire...
Iran, which retaliates for Iraqi strikes on its tanker routes on a ship-for-ship basis, sent a frigate to raid the Indian tanker Spic Emerald in the southern gulf. The vessel was carrying a Yugoslav-bound shipment of volatile petrochemical called ethylene dichloride, or EDC, loaded at Saudi Arabian ports...
...that critical issue, the President gave three different versions of his recollection of what he had done about Israel's sale of 100 U.S.-made antitank missiles to Iran in August 1985. This shipment started America's involvement in Iran arms sales, since it was conditioned on agreement that the U.S. would resupply Israel. Testifying to the Tower board this past Jan. 26, Reagan said he had approved the shipment sometime in August 1985. He even underlined a portion of McFarlane's testimony making the same point to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On Feb. 11, however, Reagan told...
...even reminded Reagan that Shultz and Weinberger opposed this move, but the President assured him he would take "all the heat for that." While the report says it cannot "conclusively" resolve the dispute, the board is "persuaded that ((the President)) most likely provided this approval prior to the first shipment by Israel...
Israel also made a shipment of 18 U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Iran in November 1985. The Iranians were furious because the missiles carried Israeli insignia. They demanded that the weapons be sent back to Israel. Again, the President's memory is cloudy on whether he gave an O.K. to the sale. At first he told the board he had objected, and that is why the shipment was returned. Later he said he and Regan had agreed that "they cannot remember any meeting or conversation about a Hawk shipment...