Word: g3
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, without waiting for orders, 500 Iranian Islamic Guards and militiamen leaped out of their trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...
...with small farms, low stone walls everywhere. The coffee trees are in bloom, but most of the farms are deserted. The soldiers had prepared for combat that morning by cleaning all their weapons. The officers, who have few privileges, saw to their own. Most carried the West German-made G3 automatic rifle. Young Lieut. Eliu knelt down with his squad and uttered his own simple prebattle invocation: "God, look after us and make us act with justice and rectitude and not be driven by our emotions...
...interview took place at Khomeini's residence, a modest, single-story four-room house on a side street that is blockaded at either end and guarded by soldiers carrying German-designed G3 automatic weapons. The Ayatullah receives visitors in what was once his living room, a bare 15-ft. by 20-ft. chamber with six clusters of tungsten spotlights along one wall; cameras of the National Iranian Radio and Television network record every audience...