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<text id=91TT1239>
<title>
June 10, 1991: World Notes:Iran
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 43
World Notes
IRAN
Love for Sale
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<p> Iran's retreat from the anti-American orthodoxy of the late
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini accelerated last week. At the
opening session of an international oil conference in Isfahan,
President Hashemi Rafsanjani called for increased economic and
political cooperation with the West and better relations with
Iran's gulf neighbors. The overture was fueled largely by the
need on the part of Tehran for foreign help to rebuild after its
debilitating eight-year war with Iraq, which ended in 1988, as
well as for long-term, reliable customers for its oil. Last year
Iran launched a five-year campaign to attract $27 billion in
foreign investment. So far, France, Italy, Germany and Austria,
among others, have extended Iran more than $12 billion in
credits. The U.S., however, continues to hold $11 billion in
frozen Iranian assets and to impose a partial ban on the
purchase of Iranian crude oil for sale in the U.S.
</p>
<p> The State Department once again insisted that to end its
commercial and diplomatic isolation from the West, Iran must
exert its influence to gain the release of the six American
hostages thought to be held by pro-Iranian Shi`ite Muslims in
Lebanon. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki took an
equally hard-nosed stance: although indicating that the ordeal
of the hostages might end "soon," he repeated his country's
long-standing demand that its funds in the U.S. be unfrozen.
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