Port workers ’ strike cuts Iran ’ s oil exports
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WASHINGTON (AP) Iranian oil exports apparently w ere choked off yesterday by a shutdown of the country’s only crude oil port. A U.S. official said the shutdown may have stem m ed from a strike by port workers. Initial reports came to adm inistration and congressional sources from the CIA. The reported shutdown at Iran ’s K harg Island came as the United States sought to negotiate the release of about 60 hostages held by m ilitant studen ts at the U.S. Em bassy in Tehran. The students and the governm ent are dem anding tha t the deposed Shah M oham m ad Reza Pahlevi be returned from New York to face trial in Iran. There had been th rea ts that the revolutionary governm ent m ight halt oil shipm ents to the U nited States in an effort to enforce that dem and. A State D epartm ent official said initial reports indicated that the suspension barred all tankers from loading, not only those of the United States. The official, who declined to be identified, said initial fragm entary reports suggested that the shutdown involved a strike. Last w in ter’s cutoff of Iranian oil exports, which led to a world shortage o f petroleum , cam e when workers shut down the oil fields in support o f the revolution. The State D epartm ent official said there was no official explanation of yesterday’s shutdown nor was there any indication of how long it would last. At the W hite House, an aide to President C arter said reports of an oil shutoff had been received “ but not confirmed. ’ ’ At the time the reports w ere m ade public, C arter was m eeting with his National Security Council to discuss the Iranian hostage situation. Ali Agah, Iranian charge d ’affaire in W ashington, said he had no information about a shutdow n of oil exports. This s tu d en t has clim bed to grea t heights in h igher education, \photo by John Macor]
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