VOL. XXXVI

NO. 8

23-NOVEMBER-1992

IRAN

Rafsanjani Calls for Muslims to Use Oil as Lever against West

Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani made a renewed reference tothe oil weapon on 18 November by calling on Muslim countries to use their oilresources as a lever against the west. Addressing the 10th annual meeting of theIslamic Chambers of Commerce in Tehran, President Rafsanjani said that"technology and economic progress of the western world are dependent on therich resources of the...