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Iran's Reintegration. A Western diplomat in Riyadh calls Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani's performance during the gulf conflict a "tour de force." By offering sanctuary to Iraqi planes, he mollified his troublesome right wing. By not returning them, he won points with the allies; he may also get to keep the jets as partial reparation for losses sustained by Iran in its own war with Iraq. In general, Iran's neutrality brought the country some international respectability, and even Washington is assessing the possibility of more cordial relations...
...clear explanation came from Tehran. Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani did assure the U.S.-led coalition, however, that the decision to provide sanctuary to some of Saddam's most sophisticated French and Soviet fighters and most of his SU-24 Fencer bombers would not affect Iran's neutral status. The planes, Iranian officials said, will be impounded and held until hostilities end. They also insisted that no deal had been cut with Baghdad in advance...
...trip by Aziz paves the way for a meeting between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani to sign a peace treaty officially ending hostilities...
After declaring three days of mourning, President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Iran's spiritual leader, the Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, flew to the area to supervise relief operations. Allocating $14 million from a strapped treasury for disaster relief, Ayatullah Khamenei described the catastrophe as a "divine test" and appealed to survivors to "pass this test with pride through patience, endeavor, cooperation...
Indirectly, of course, Tehran gets a boost. Settlements of this sort will help President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ease his country back into the trade and economic relationships it so badly needs with the rest of the world. And if he cares to regard it as evidence that a conciliatory approach to the U.S. pays off, all the better...