Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American colleges and universities have indicated that they will not comply with a request from the government of Iran for a list of all their Iranian students "with their major fields of study and their addresses, particularly those who will be graduating soon...
...have historically considered Jews to be second class citizens in their hands, and violence by Arabs against Jews (not to needed against other Arabs) came long be fore the first modern Zionists, Rachman's comment on the most recent tragedy in Lebanon is also false. An anti-American, pro-Iranian terrorist organization, not Israel, blew up the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Finally, Israel does have a right to exist, Jews have rights to national independent and no one is to blame for the Arab rejection of the Jewish state save for the Arabs themselves...
...some 100; though the death toll is likely to rise as the search goes on, the assault already ranks as the bloodiest terrorist attack ever against a U.S. diplomatic mission. Ten minutes after the blast, an anonymous caller warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was "part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world." The man identified himself as a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up of Shi'ite Muslims loyal to Ayatullah Khomeini. Yet within a day, two other terrorist groups had also claimed responsibility...
Ordinarily such leaks are repaired within weeks. Iran says that it sent experts to inspect the damage, but that they were bombarded by the Iraqis in air attacks. On March 2, Iraq announced that any ships that came near the damaged platforms would be treated as military targets. Iranian officials say they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there...
...eager to end. Iran, on the other hand, may expect the deteriorating environment to help split Iraq from Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states, which have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the Iraqi war effort. If such hopes are being nurtured in the Iranian capital of Tehran, they are unrealistic. Both sides in the Iran-Iraq war are, as a Western diplomat puts it, "obsessed with getting the maximum military and propaganda advantage" from the spill. Under the shadow of such rampant obstructionism, the nations of the gulf seem doomed to deal with an ever more visible...