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Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will bring forward proposals to deal with short-term profit seeking by United States controlled oil companies which are planning to exploit the Iranian Crisis by redirected crude supplies from this country to other markets, as outlined in the Conoco document sent to him by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr.
Supplies, Iranian Crisis, 597.
I shall say nothing about the hesitation of the Turks to accept American marines in the Iranian Crisis or the hesitation of the Saudis to accept an American presence.
I am certainly prepared to continue pressing the oil suppliers, as I have for several weeks, to try to even out the first impact of the Iranian Crisis, particularly in the way that my hon. Friend rightly describes.
- that includes the amount taken off for stockpiling because stockpiling for the winter is obviously vital - in some areas, because some companies have been unevenly hit by the Iranian Crisis, there has been a much greater shortfall.
He should perhaps reflect on the five years during which the affairs of this nation were in the charge of his right hon. Friends - including four months after the Iranian Crisis was perfectly in prospectßžwhen very little was done to prepare the country for the difficulties we now face.
There is the extreme vulnerability of all the OECD countries to sudden interruptions of oil supply and the real danger, as the right hon. Gentleman said, of Another Iranian Crisis elsewhere in the Middle East.
But memories began to dim until the Iranian Crisis in 1979.
More recently they have suffered because of the Iranian Crisis.
It is satisfactory that throughout the Iranian Crisis the Governments of the Nine and the embassies of the Nine in Tehran have worked together more solidly than on any other issue that I can remember.
My hon. Friend described their attitude to the Iranian Crisis as " desperate ".
The powers are very specific and are related only to the Iranian Crisis.
We were driven to relax the policy in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian Crisis, but the Minister of State subsequently tightened the requirements and I believe that there is a case for considering whether they should be tightened even further.
I refer, for example, to the Iranian Crisis.
Will the trading company be able to act as the BNOC did during the Iranian Crisis?
I beg the Prime Minister - who said something quite different at Question Time from what the then Minister of State said when describing the Iranian Crisis-not to assume that there is no role for the United Nations in the Gulf.
The UK, together with the United States, seeks a peaceful solution to the Iranian Crisis, but we are very clear that a combination of engagement and continued pressure is the way to deliver that.