Oddly, the country that may have most to gain from Iran's political crisis has been the first to be hurt by its oilfield chaos. For weeks hundreds of thousands of Armenians, Georgians and Azerbaijanis in the mountainous country north of Iran's border with the Soviet Union have been shivering through an experience reminiscent of the American Midwest in recent winters: icy temperatures and no natural gas.
Gas is unavailable because the 746-mile pipeline that carries it from Iran's Ahwaz field to Soviet ports on the Caspian Sea has been out of service since the field was shut down by Iranian strikers last...
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