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Article: Uncle Sam huffs over Iran oil deal.
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- African Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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The US State Department has been waving a warning finger at South Africa following the African country's recent trade deals with Iran and Cuba. Many in South Africa are incensed at what they see as interference in the foreign policy of an independent state.
The African continent has always been low on the State Department's list of priorities. Although Congress enacted a number of sanctions against South Africa in the mid-1980s, what happened in the apartheid state was never of more than marginal interest in Washington. Since the South African elections of April 1994, however, the United States has tended to behave as though it played a larger part in bringing ...