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U.S. Pressuring Israel
To Halt Iran Arms Flow
Operation Staunch, aimed at getting
other countries not to provide arms
to Iran, is reportedly being revived.
T
he Reagan Administra-
tion says it is still pre-
pared to try to improve
relations with Iran despite
the controversy surrounding
earlier U.S. arms shipments
to that country and the al-
leged diversion of proceeds
from those sales to the contra
rebels in Nicaragua.
At the same time, White
House and State Department
officials rejected any resump-
tion of U.S. arms sales to
Iran. They also said the U.S.
was strongly reviving its
Operation Staunch, aimed at
pressuring other countries, in-
cluding Israel, not to provide
weapons to Iran.
"Because of Iran's strategic
position," White House
spokesman Larry Speakes
said, "we're prepared to listen
to Iran if it is ready to con-
tinue a dialogue. But as the
Secretary of State laid down,
[there are] a number of guide-
lines for that dialogue. Iran's
pursuit of the war [against
Iraq] and [its] support for ter-
rorism remain major im-
pediments."
At the State Department,
spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley
denied that the U.S. had
passed any messages to Iran
in recent weeks through third
countries, as reported by The
Washington Post. But like
Speakes, she said the U.S.
would be prepared to "listen
if the government of Iran
wants to talk to us?!
Other U.S. officials said the
Administration, in recent
weeks, had strongly urged
Israel to suspend its own
widely-suspected military
supply relationship with Iran,
which reportedly still involves
the use of private Israeli arms
agents based in Europe.
The Wall Street Journal
reported that a secret memo-
randum prepared by the
White House following the in-
itial round of questioning of
former National Security
Council official Oliver North
raised the possibility that
some Israeli officials may
have been informed of the
plan to fund the contras from
the profits of the Iran arms
sales.
Quoting U.S. law-enforce-
ment officials, the newspaper
said that the comprehensive,
written account of the affair
is significant because it can
help to explain "whether
Israeli government officials
or arms dealers also may have
suspected or known about
such efforts to funnel money
to the insurgents, known as
the contras."
Administration sources
familiar with the chronology
told the newspaper that the
U.S. government demanded
the return of Hawk missiles
shipped to Iran by Israel in
Novemener 1985 because the
missiles had been shipped
without President Ronald
Reagan's approval. Other U.S.
officials, however, have said
that the Iranians rejected the
missiles because they were
outdated. The incident led
U.S. officials to stop selling
arms to Iran through two
Israeli middlemen, Yaacov
Nimrodi and Al Schwimmer.
In December, then-Prime
Minister Shimon Peres
named Amiram Nir, his ad-
U.S. investigators
suspect that many
millions of dollars
may have wound
up in the pockets
of private arms
agents.
viser on counter-terrorism, to
serve as the chief liaison to
the NSC on the issue.
The White House chrono-
logy, which was used exten-
sively by Attorney-General
Edwin Meese, White House
Chief of Staff Donald Regan,
and CIA Director William
Casey during their Congres-
sional testimony, said that
Reagan did not authorize the
first Israeli arms shipment to
Iran in August-September of
last year — a position main-
tained by Meese and Regan
during their sworn testimony
before Congress.
But former National Secur-
ity Adviser Robert
McFarlane has told the same
panels, also under sworn
testimony, that he had re-
ceived "oral" authorization
from Reagan for the Israeli
shipment in August.
The issue is important
because it involves potential
violations of American law.
Among the weapons sold by
Israel to Iran in that first
shipment were 500 U.Smade
TOW anti-tank missiles.
Under U.S. law, Israel can not
transfer American-supplied
weapons to a third country
without prior U.S. approval.
Israeli officials have main-
tained that Kimche, the then-
Director-General of the
Foreign Ministry, had re-
turned to Jerusalem from
talks with McFarlane in
Washington that summer
with a clear signal of U.S. ap-
proval for the weapons ship-
ment. But there was reported-