VOL. XXXII

NO. 7

21-NOVEMBER-1988

OPEC: FOCUS ON IRAN

MEES Editor Ian Seymour Reports from Vienna, 18 November*

Once again OPEC is facing a terrible cliff-hanger in its efforts to puttogether a new production control agreement designed to stave off the imminentdanger of another oil price collapse. Here in Vienna the focus - virtually tothe exclusion for the time being of all other pending problems - is on Iran.Will Iran maintain its present adamant refusal to accept Iraq-Iran quota parityon...