Amid nuclear dispute, Israel and Iran face off over past oil ties
lipped on decades-old arbitration * Oil company hopes to become regional hub for energy trade TEL AVIV, March 3 (Reuters) - As Israel loudly and publicly denounces Iran and its nuclear programme this week, the two countries are quietly tussling in a decades-old dispute over a secretive oil pipeline company that could be worth billions of dollars to Tehran. In a Swiss court, lawyers for each side are locked in arbitration over the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Co. (EAPC), a joint venture set up in 1968, when the two nations were friendly, to ...
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