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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...
In their own defense, officials in Tokyo insisted that Japan, like the U.S., was a victim of Iranian blackmail. Unless the oil was bought, they claimed, Tehran threatened to suspend negotiations on Japan's 1980 allotment of Iranian oil, which this year amounted to 11 % of Japanese consumption. Moreover...
Quite the contrary, say skeptical U.S. Government economists and Western experts in Tehran. Iran has found more than enough alternative sources of food; for example, the Australian government supports the U.S. on the hostages but has continued its exports of meat and wheat to Iran, which this year will total...
The Administration is particularly peeved about the help that the Japanese have been giving Iran. In Paris, Vance provided an earful of complaints to Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita, who was in the city for a meeting of the International Energy Agency. A U.S. official charged that Tokyo has allowed...
The Mujahedin is the more moderate of the two parties. It practices the same religion as Khomeini, but it differs in wanting to establish a classless society, or "pure Shi'ism." The party boycotted the referendum on the theocratic constitution, and it refused to surrender the arsenal it had...