Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranian military intelligence units patrolling the hills northwest of the border town of Bostan flashed a warning: the Iraqis were about to attack Tang-e-Chazzabeh, a narrow mountain pass straddling the frontier. Two dozen Iranian crews manning field guns and Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers were awaiting the signal from their commanding officer. Sure enough, an Iranian forward observer spotted the columns of Iraqi armor and infantry on the move. He called "Now!" into his walkie-talkie. The commanding officer yelled "Fire!" The guns roared and the missiles blasted off toward the attacking Iraqi units...
Then, without waiting for orders, 500 Iranian Islamic Guards and militiamen leaped out of their trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...
Even so, the Islamic Guards and militiamen suffered more than 100 casualties in the fighting. The Iraqis sustained far fewer losses, but the frenzied Iranian charge evidently confused them. Within an hour of their initial attack, the Iraqis fell back. Surveying the carnage, a frustrated Iranian army captain said, "This madness was unnecessary. We could have blown the Iraqis to bits with our fire power alone...
Several suspected terrorists have visited and studied at Berkeley. Senzani attended the campus in 1972-73, and the Oakland Tribune reported last year that Iranian revolutionary leaders also studied there...
...border, the Pakistanis are said to have their own listening post tuned to what is happening in Iran and. assuredly, the operations at the Soviet station. What is more, the Pakistanis reportedly have sent patrols into Iran to learn more about the flurry of activity, just as the Iranians are said to be sending their own scouts across the border. Early last December, two Soviet intelligence agents were killed during a chance encounter with a Pakistani intelligence unit patrolling the border. At about the same time, Salim Ahmed, a Pakistani spy who had ventured into Iranian territory, was captured...