VOL. XXXI

NO. 7

23-NOVEMBER-1987

IRANIAN PLANS FOR GAS AND OIL EXPORTS TO USSR UNLIKELY TO MATERIALIZE INPRACTICE

(In the following article MEES Executive Editor Walid Khadduri examines indetail Iran's much publicized plans for gas and oil exports by pipeline to theSoviet Union, and concludes that, given existing constraints, such plans areunlikely to materialize in practice in the foreseeable future.)

For almost two years now, official Iranian statements and news reports havereferred to the...