Source: Financial Times, 11th January 2012
When Ronald Reagan imposed an embargo on Iranian oil in October 1987, the market braced itself for a big price hike. But while the ban stopped the flow of 500,000 barrels a day to the US, crude prices fell from about $20 a barrel in early October of that year to less than $15 in December.





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