VOL. XL

No. 43

27-October-1997

IRAN

US Opposed To Any Pipeline Crossing Iran

The US Undersecretary of State for Business and Economic Affairs, Mr. Stuart Eizenstat,told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 23 October that the Clinton administrationis opposed to any oil or gas pipeline that traverses Iran. He said that a US decision inJuly not to oppose a pipeline that would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to Turkey viaIran "has been widely misinterpreted to mean that the US has...