Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kimche warned from the start that the Iranians sooner or later would ask for arms. Any faction that came to power would first have to develop a constituency in the Iranian military and Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards, and weapons were the only currency likely to sway them. At the same time, said Kimche, the Iranians thought they could prevail on Muslim fanatics in Lebanon to release American hostages. In fact, said Kimche, the Iranians had outlined to him three separate arrangements under which the hostages might be set free...
...arms and asked the U.S. to replenish Israel's stocks? Said McFarlane: "David, let's not kid ourselves. The matter isn't whether or not Israel is entitled to buy weapons from the U.S. The matter is a policy judgment that you are going to start supporting a faction in Iran with weapons and whether that's a sensible thing...
...This faction of the party blindly follows a strict ideological line. It also contains a "populist" element that revels in bringing political hacks to the upper reaches of government. Time was when the Republican Party stood for integrity, even if it did not stand for a progressive or caring government, but now no longer...
...ninth city councilor, Alfred E. Vellucci, aligns himself with neither group, making it more difficult for either faction to gain a five-vote majority on any issue...
Laurie Mylroie, a government instructor andassistant director of the Center for MiddleEastern Studies, said that what is left in Iran is"a revolutionary core" and that the Americangovernment was "working with the Khomeini regimeand not a moderate faction...