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...highest echelons of Khomeini's command were further decimated last week when Defense Minister Mousa Namju, acting Staff Chief Valiollah Fallahi and two other ranking commanders were killed in the crash of a C-130 returning from the Iranian-Iraqi front. Although a spokesman for a group of former officers loyal to the Shah claimed to have sabotaged the plane, both the government and Mujahedin leaders believed the crash was most likely an accident. Only days earlier, Iran had claimed its "biggest victory" in the year-long border conflict when its forces broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan...
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