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To: sandintoes who wrote (1048)10/16/2000 8:05:08 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1719
 
also iran open up again to oil for others? Who's responsible for foreign policy?
except from Wash post.
What's disturbing is that the two cornerstones of U.S. policy in the region have come unstuck at once, notes Vahan Zanoyan, president of Petroleum Finance. The Arab-Israeli peace process is broken, and no one can be sure if or when it will be fixed. And the U.S. policy known as "Dual Containment," which sought to isola!
te Iraq and Iran, also is unraveling. Jets are flying into Baghdad every day in open defiance of the U.S.-led sanctions policy. And the French oil giant, TotalFinaElf, has defied a threat of U.S. sanctions by doing a big oil deal with Iran--essentially calling America's bluff.

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