Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's intransigent stand toward negotiations augurs more death and destruction. After meeting with Khomeini last week, Brigadier General Qassem Ali Zahirnejad, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "We have bigger operations in store that we shall unleash in order to put the enemy in his place. If we stay idle, Saddam himself or another Saddam will attack...
...Iranian government went to some effort last week to persuade the gulf states that it had no designs on any Arab countries other than Iraq. Complained Majlis Speaker Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The West is trying to depict us as an expansionist power." He noted that the gulf states had supported the Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980, but magnanimously said that his government considered their action "pardonable...
...have remained in the Prophet's family. The Sunnis prefer to make such decisions by consensus. The Shi'ites supported Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law All, who became the fourth Caliph, or successor, before his assassination in 661. According to the Shi'ites, Ali and his descendants were Imams, divinely guided leaders and mediators between God and man. The last of twelve Imams disappeared in 940, and is believed to be in hiding, awaiting the right moment to re-emerge and establish a purified Islamic government of justice. Because of the violent deaths...
...religious leader has relinquished none of the levers of power that he grasped upon his triumphal return to Tehran 3½ years ago. Under Iran's Islamic Republican constitution, Khomeini's role as Velayat-e-Faqih, or religious guardian, gives him more power than either President Seyed Ali Khamene'i or Prime Minister...
...expansive sweep of civil engineering, from the pyramids of the Nile to the construction of the Panama Canal, nothing so huge, or costly, as Jubail has ever before been attempted by anyone." Says Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail, whose government has already spent $35 billion on Jubail and its smaller sister project Yanbu, and plans to spend upwards of $100 billion more in years to come: "We simply cannot exaggerate what is going on out here." Jubail is, in brief, a project of moon-landing proportions, one that in the very grandeur and scope of its conception...