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...Stamford store was opened in 1980 by Balanian Hashemi, a wealthy Iranian businessman who had fled his country after the fall of the Shah. Although he had lost favor with the mullahs, Hashemi had no qualms about making money from their revolution. As thousands of Iranians gathered daily in the streets of Tehran to shout "Death to America!" and even after a gang of students took over the U.S. embassy, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, Hashemi was selling U.S. arms to Iran. Ordered by the Iranian military to be more discreet, Hashemi closed the shop last year...
...Hashemi is not alone in pursuing the illegal arms trade with Iran. TIME has learned that hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of U.S.-made military equipment continues to flow to Iran each year, despite a State Department ban on all arms sales to that country. The suppliers include at least a score of American companies as well as international arms dealers operating in the U.S. In addition, large quantities of American arms sold legally to such allies as South Korea and Israel are being resold to Iran in clear violation of written agreements with...
...Koranic code name Walfajr, for "I swear by the dawn." But Iranian leaders were also calling it "the last blow to Baghdad," and noting that it was timed to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iranian revolution led by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Declared Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Hojjatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The people expect this offensive to be the final military operation that will determine the destiny of the region...
...Iranian government went to some effort last week to persuade the gulf states that it had no designs on any Arab countries other than Iraq. Complained Majlis Speaker Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The West is trying to depict us as an expansionist power." He noted that the gulf states had supported the Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980, but magnanimously said that his government considered their action "pardonable...
...Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations from Iraq, although Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani pointedly noted that Iran would abandon its claim to reparations if Iraq were converted into an Iranian-style Islamic republic...