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U.S. requests. In ;act, the nucle-
,ar reactors that Russia plans to
selltolran wereoriginallv to be,
built by Siemens of Germany.
,Work was halted after the 1979,
'Iranian revolution and, because
of pressure from the United
;itates. never resumed.
But Mr: HubeI said he doubted
if any European nation
'would follow the sanctions
route.
The United States is "wasting
its time," said Lindsay Horn, an
energy expert with Lehman
arothers in London. Refemng
to the Iranians, he added, "All
, it's going to do is irri,tate t~e~:
which-you can doqUlte easl!~.
He called it "a gesture easily
,made" that does not achieve
anything economically.
Clinton on a Limb: Congressional
Pressure Spurred Iran Trade Ban
By ThomasW.
Lippman
Washington Pmt Sen'ice
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton's
decision to bar all U.S. trade with Iran
put the anti-Irancampaign squarely at the
top of the administration's foreign policy
agenda, placing at risk such treasured priori-
,ties as cooperation with Russia, expansion of
markets for Americilll goods. outreach to
Islam and extension uf the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty.
If the boycott fails to coerce Iran into
changing its policies, fails to dissuade Russia
from selling nuclear equipment to Iran and
fails to persuade U.S. allies to restrict their
own commerce with Tehran - all these are
distinctly possible - the admil).istration will
potentially haveundermined its other obje~tives
and penalized U ,S. business for no gam
other than to show the U.S. Congress that it
was prepared to get tough.
SecretarY of State Warr,en M~Christopher.>
used language Monday that left the administration
little room to maneuver or retreat
gracefully. He called Iran an "outlaw state"
that "simply cannot be permitted to get its
hands on nuclear weapons," and said that
:Iran was responsible for "a' trail of carnage
fromlkit Lid to Buenos Aires," referring to
'terrorist attacks in Israel and Argentina for
which Iranian responsibility has not been
t'stablished.
Mr. Christopher deliberately used such
lal1guage because he is personally committed:
:to blocking Iran's effort to.acquire nuclear
weapons, a State Department official said.
.:'The issue is so important that no one is'
thinking about how to hedge," the official
said.
White House officials have acknowledged,
however, that it was not,iust Iranian behavior
that induced Mr.' Clinton to embrace the
:toughest of the Iran policy options developed:
for him by'his advisers, It was also pressure
from the chairman of the Senate Banking
çOmmittee, Alfonse M. D'Amata, Republi-
;~an of New York, and othe,r members
,Congress.
of
~..Mr. D'Amato and olhers are sponsoring a
'measure that would go further than the presi-
\}ent's forthcoming executive order, announced
Sunday. Their bill would close U.S.
markets to most foreign corporations doing
business with Iran, imposing what administration
officials call a "secondary boycott."
U,S. allies such as Germany, Japan an