VOL. XXXIX

No. 3

16-October-1995

IRAN

D'Amato To Delay Iran Bill As US Officials Assess Impact of Sanctions

The Chairman of the US Senate Banking Committee, Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), announced on 11 October that he would hold off from pressing ahead with the bill imposing US trade sanctions on foreign companies supplying oil and gas equipment and services to Iran which he introduced on 11 September (MEES, 18 September). In a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effectiveness of...