Shamsi Asadullayev - oil shipping, largest native industrialist.

Iran Vulnerable to Oil Attacks The other reason was Iran's relative vulnerability to attacks on oil shipping.

During the lull, Iran reportedly reaped handsome profits on oil shipping and rebuilt its financial resources for the war.

- Energy transporters such as pipeline companies, oil shipping and delivery companies.

In Dubai, an official of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has called on both the United States and the Soviet Union to protect oil shipping.

The U.S. will protect oil shipping and the freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, President Reagan said.

Shipping sources said Iraq's Arab allies have persuaded the Baghdad Government to limit its attacks on Iranian oil shipping.

The Coast Guard, for its part, has dozens of new regulations and programs under consideration that would affect oil shipping, but most of them are far from being put into effect.

American diplomats have long sought more European participation in the efforts to safeguard oil shipping threatened by the Iran-Iraq war.

From terrorism,involving itself in other countries such as Iraq and threats from stating about wiping country of the map to blocking the oil shipping.