VOL. XXXIX

No. 26

25-March-1996

IRAN

D'Amato's Iran Sanctions Campaign Turns Fire On French Firms

Pursuing his campaign of epistolary harassment of non-US companies linked to actual or potential involvement in oil and gas projects in Iran, the US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato is now turning his fire against France's two largest oil companies - Elf Aquitaine and Total. Previous targets of Mr. D'Amato's ire in this connection have included Australia's BHP, Japan's JGC,...