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...where the reconnaissance information indicates that Iranian troops are concentrated near the port of Basra, the site of Iraq's major oil production facilities; in the center, near Amara, where Iranian troops are solidly entrenched within 200 miles of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital; and in the north, where Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has persuaded Kurdish dissidents to foment new trouble for the regime of President Saddam Hussein. In Tehran last week, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammed Salimi, sounded a clear-cut warning: "Despite the superpowers' opposition, a push into Iraqi territory has become inevitable...
...every Arab state for their failure to fight wholeheartedly for the Palestinians and their willingness to make a separate ceasefire. The situation in Syria has been complicated by the arrival in Damascus last week of some 2,000 Iranian volunteers, wearing green headbands and holding aloft pictures of Ayatullah Khomeini. Their mission: to help Syria wage war on Israel?despite the arms aid that Israel provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last week charged that...
...mood of jubilation prevailed in the Hosseynieh mosque, adjacent to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's residence in a village north of Tehran. Khomeini, 82, leaned on two aides as he walked up a flight of stairs leading from his house to the balcony of the mosque, from which he often speaks. In the midst of a rambling discourse on domestic issues, he turned to the subject of his army's victories against Iraq in the 20-month-old border war. In effect, Khomeini declared that, come what may, he would square accounts with his enemy Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
Khomeini then turned his attention to nonaligned leaders who are scheduled to meet in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in September. Declared the Ayatullah: "You will earn yourselves eternal shame if you choose a dead murderer as your leader. You cannot cleanse him of the stains of his crimes, even if you use all the oceans of the world. Don't trouble yourselves...
...with Saddam Hussein for several years and was finally replaced by him in July 1979. Thus power would remain in the hands of the politically dominant Sunni Muslims. But as a gesture to Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 60% of the Iraqi population, as well as to Ayatullah Khomeini, the Muslim world's ranking Shi'ite, a prominent Shi'ite would become Prime Minister...