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any fịancial transactions with Iran resulting from the hostage situation in Tehran, It is The decision of April 18, 1980 by the Council of Ministers preceded the publication in Diário da Republic of the said embargo, which would take place on April 21 of the same year. An attempt was also made to date of the termination of the said embargo, and no conclusion has been reached as to the precise date. IS, however, it is legitimate to estimate that the end of the embargo occurred at the end of January 1981, more specifically on the 26th, like other European countries.

The Portuguese platform would go through not only direct amis exports, but also as hub for the transfer of military material to Iran, namely through Israel.

In fact, the aforementioned audit of the CEMGFA Office's accounts identified remittances from military material for the country in question, which was at that time subject to an embargo. Some companies possibly involved in the commercialization of arms were identified, it was The testimony of Commander Alpoim Calvão was decisive, who reported facts that reveal the existence of military material exports to Iran, later corroborated by Vasco Montez and Colonel Oliveira Marques.

According to the audit of the accounts of the CEMGFA Office for the period between 1974 and 1981, through analysis of the correspondence book of the CEMGFA Office it was possible to ascertain the existence of arms exports to several countries. It is therefore important to recall the text of the audit:

«From all the documentation analyzed in the EMGHA, it seems to us to highlight some of the information contained in the register books of entries of classified correspondence received in the CEMGFA office, particularly in the years 1979, 1980 and 1981 (...).

In faci, the content of these books leads to the conclusion that, in this period, the aris exports to several countries.

Indeed, both the Office of the Minister of National Defense and the Logistics Directorate of the EMGFA (DILOG) and also the National Armaments Director (DNA), communicate the EMGFA Office frequently exported war material to various countries.

It appears to result from reading the records inserted in the correspondence record book classification received at the EMGFA Office in 1980 that, this yeur, the Minister of Defense in some cases will have asked for additional clarification and in others it will not even have authorized some of the intentional arms exports.

In fact, in April 1980 it would not have authorized the export to Guatemala and the Argentina and in August of the same year to Indonesia,

Still on December 2, 1980 (two days before the altack) , the Office of the Minister for National Defense will have asked the EMGFA Office to urgently deign to inform whatever he considered convenient about the export of war material to Iran,

Despite this, everything suggests that it will have followed war material for Iran once the said classified correspondence record book contains, on December 9, 1980

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