VOL. XXXVII

NO. 29

18-APRIL-1994

Iran

Iran Again Blames Saudi Arabia For Low Oil Prices

Iran has taken another swipe at Saudi Arabia for its refusal to reduce crudeoil production at last month's OPEC meeting in Geneva. At a prayer sermon atTehran University on 8 April, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a member of the Councilof Guardians, suggested that Riyadh was a "stooge" of the US.

"The United States has engineered a plot and we can see it inpractice," Jannati said, according to Tehran radio. "They want...