Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, this time the Iranian high command abandoned its suicidal tactic of human wave assaults and adopted a more conventional deployment of armor and artillery to confront the Iraqis. The Iranian forces pushed eleven miles inside Iraqi territory before they were stopped by a ferocious counterattack near the strategic Iraqi port of Basra. For the spoils of a few miles of sun-baked marshland, some 2,000 Iranians lost their lives. Iraq now says that more than 21,000 Iranian troops have been killed in the abortive drive on Basra, while Iraqi casualties, though not publicized, are estimated...
...trip to Algiers two weeks ago, Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi spelled out those terms and stressed Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve...
...anticipation of further Iranian assaults, exit visas were canceled to ensure that all able-bodied men were available for military service. Said an Iraqi officer: "There is hardly anybody born between 1948 and 1962 who is not at the front...
Joining in the search were three men from Britain's crack Special Air Service, the unit best known for its daring rescue in May 1980 of hostages held in the Iranian embassy in London. The four teams of trackers, occasionally crawling on hands and knees, were able for a time to follow the kidnapers' trail through the bush, but lost the track after local tribesmen drove heir cattle through the area. The government suspects that the villagers were trying to protect the abductors. Indeed, he kidnapers were reportedly hidden overnight by a member of Nkomo's Zimbabwe...
Bracelets made of cardboard hardly sound like stepping-out gear, but in California they are fast becoming fashionable. Recession Ware bracelets, offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...