Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battlefield deployment of chemical weapons inflicted "only" an estimated 1100 Iranian casualties, a minute percentage of the hundreds of thousands of casualties suffered by both sides. Why wasn't the war the major topic of international discussion in February when tens of thousands of Iranians died in "preliminary forays" into Iraqi defense lines...
...STATISTICS SEEM grue- some enough. Nearly 150,000 Iranian and 60,000 Iraqi soldiers killed. Billions of dollars spent on the war effort each month. Iranian children as young as nine or 10 slaughtered in suicide assaults on Iraqi minefields. And the stakes seem high enough. Sixty percent of the West's oil flows from the Gulf. An Iranian victory might unleash a wave of radical Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region, threatening the stability of moderate Arab states...
Halfway around the globe, the largest armies since World War II have inflicted enormous upon each other. The Iranians have amussed estimated 400,000 troops in a front covering Basra. Iraq's second largest city, and the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway. Already, three times as many Iranian soldiers have died in the 43 month conflict that did Americans in the much longer Vietnam...
Network camaras briefly aimed their lenses at the Iran-Iraq war last month when the U.S. charged that Iraq had used mustard gas against Iranian soldiers. Iran had sent 15 of its wounded to West European hospitals, hoping to prove an Iraql violation of the 1925 Geneva Convention banning mustard gas. Toxicologists in Belgium found strong evidence of a mustard gas attack, and the U.S. State Department joined other nations in condemning Iraq...
...part, the press argues that the Iranian and Iraqi ban on foreign reporters precludes coverage of the war. A disturbing implication arises from this position: If you can't get neat, satellite-transmitted color videos ready for the seven o'clock news, it's not worth covering. Surely, censorship and restricted information flows cannot and must not deter correspondents from reporting the news. They may not be able to tell us the details of the conflict, but at least reporters can inform us of the gravity of the issue...