Getting these countries to curb all nuclear-usable trade will be easier if it is not seen as part of a total embargo.

A total embargo on purchases from Iran could make a big difference - if it could be enforced.

"We can in effect have a total embargo and try to shut the country down," he said.

Here comes either redoubled oil prices or a total embargo and, in either case, a disastrous recession.

We have advocated a total embargo with humanitarian exceptions for food and medicine.

Short of a total embargo, sanctions would do little to worsen the North's already bleak economic prospects.

But Western European countries have resisted a total embargo because it would hurt their economic interests.

Croatia will call for a total economic embargo and military pressure against the new Yugoslavia.

There was the decision to introduce a total embargo immediately, despite the vigorous protests of the British Government.

Today's order relaxes a total embargo on trade imposed in 1950.