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...agreement on a cease-fire would postpone a cutback of U.S. naval forces escorting oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. The Reagan Administration would also be forced to defer its efforts to forge a new relationship with Iran after a hiatus of nearly a decade. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's parliament, raised that prospect and a good deal more: the possibility of securing Iran's help in gaining the release of nine American hostages believed held by pro-Iranian factions in Lebanon...
...Iranian hands, including the Fao peninsula, staging areas east of Basra, and the oil-rich Majnoun islands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Khomeini desperately searched for ways to turn the tide, handing over command of the country's armed forces in June to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful and relatively pragmatic speaker of parliament...
...their allies. Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the pro-Iranian Hizballah in Lebanon, urged that no harm come to the nine American hostages held by Muslim extremists. "I find no justification for making the hostages account for a matter to which they are not connected," Fadlallah said. Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's powerful and pragmatic Assembly speaker, last week warned against "some amateurish action" that might "remove the wave of propaganda that is now heaped on America's head." By showing moderation, the Iranians apparently hope to press their propaganda advantage when the United Nations Security Council considers Iran...
...defensive, forced to regroup and rebuild after decisive defeats at the hands of the Iraqi army. The battlefield losses in turn have increased tensions between radical and moderate factions among the ruling mullahs and led the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to bestow his title of commander in chief to Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful Speaker of Parliament...
...Iranians, however, did not see it that way. "God willing, we will carry out our duty in the coming days and make them sorry," said Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani. At midweek the vow of vengeance was made good. Yet another Silkworm missile was launched from the Iranian-occupied Fao peninsula, about 50 miles north of Kuwait City. The missile scored a direct hit on Sea Island, Kuwait's only deep-water oil-loading facility. The strike caused an explosion that could be heard 20 miles away in Kuwait City. The loading dock's destruction could temporarily cripple the emirate...