Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another grim chapter in the 34-month-old war between Iran and Iraq. Regular troops and Islamic Guards from Iran penetrated six miles into Iraq last week, pursuing Kurdish rebels who had raided Iranian government outposts and seizing a small Iraqi garrison at the border. The Iranian attack was typical of the pattern of the war. Major cross-border assaults are followed by fierce counterattacks, followed by exaggerated casualty claims. But even allowing for customary hyperbole, the toll was high. Iran claimed that its forces had killed or wounded 3,800 Iraqis; Iraq took credit for 1,400 Iranian casualties...
...when the second energy shock hit, in 1979, when OPEC increased prices from $13 to $24 per bbl. in the wake of the Iranian revolution, the Japanese had learned to deal with oil shortages. They not only survived that crisis, they prospered. Industrial production was up 10% during the second half of 1979, and oil consumption was down 2.8%. In the first two quarters of 1980, the gross national product went...
...show that in a recent twelve-month period Korean Air Lines and two government-controlled South Korean companies made 60 separate purchases of Hawk missiles and related parts. On the basis of their intelligence sources, U.S. Customs officials contend that these missiles were destined for Iran. Defectors from the Iranian air force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company operating under agreements with the State Department and Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., supplied Iran with Chinook...
...that also has civilian uses and thus can be sold legally under some interpretations of the vague U.S. trade rules. It included radar, navigational equipment and radio parts. When R.R.C. found that U.S. Customs officials rarely checked crates of this equipment, it began to address them openly to the Iranian air force. It also began to include in the crates such clearly banned items as spare parts for fighter planes, including engines and generators. The process became so easy, contends De Mello, that "after subcontractors sold parts to us two or three times, knowing they were being shipped to Iran...
...Rvocco, an American who owns Ramco International Inc., a major aviation-parts company in New Jersey. Once a supplier to De Mello and Hashemi, Rvocco began arming the Iranian air force directly, and currently has large contracts with it for the supply of U.S. spares and equipment. Ramco records show equipment being sent out of the country for Iranian air force C-130s, and last week U.S. authorities stopped Ramco electronics and aviation parts headed out of the country. Rvocco insists that he has shipped only legitimate dual-use supplies: "There is not a single transaction they can trace...