1.   Rafsanjani also met the Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut and concluded an agreement on the sale of Iranian oil and gas to Turkey.

2.   It also succeeded, in retaliation for mine damage to the frigate Samuel B. Roberts, in demolishing two Iranian offshore oil platforms, Sirri and Sassan.

3.   In their dispute with Iran the British set out to close off all outlets for Iranian oil.

4.   American companies were already barred from importing Iranian oil.

5.   An Iranian oil embargo is unlikely to hurt U.S. oil companies such as San Francisco-based Chevron Corp., analysts said yesterday.

6.   Because of restrictions against importing Iranian oil into the United States, the oil purchased by U.S. firms is refined in Europe and Asia.

7.   But Clinton has made clear in recent weeks that he will sign legislation penalizing companies that invest in Iranian oil projects.

8.   But every day the subsidiaries are still allowed to make a mockery of the U.S. embargo by buying Iranian oil and selling it outside the United States.

9.   But he declined to say whether the United States would change its policy and bar American oil companies from buying Iranian oil.

10.   But the biggest practical effect would be to end purchases by American companies of Iranian oil for resale on the world market.