Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast of Portugal for nearly a month. Gretl, owned by a Hamburg shipper, was carrying $6.8 million worth of Portuguese-made munitions, including some 67,000 120-mm mortar shells that were originally bound from the port of Setubal to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The shipment in a West German flag carrier was illegal under a Bonn law that forbids the transport of armaments to "areas of tension." The delivery was contracted for by the Danish shipping firm of Finn J. Poulsen, which has an indirect connection with Iranscam. Last April the company sold a 163-ft. ship...
...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...
...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...