Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1980, the Israelis received additional intelligence. Taking advantage of the confusion at the start of the Iraq-Iran war, unmarked Israeli planes flew over the reactor site, gathering valuable data. It was during this period that two Iranian warplanes made a bumbling attack on the reactor, causing little damage. Iraq charged that Israel was involved. Israel's acting Defense Minister, Mordechai Zipori, labeled the accusation an "anti-Semitic blood libel...
...notice, not to be given before news reports of the attack came over the wires. Porath waited through all of Sunday evening for a telephone call from Begin authorizing release of the story. Not until the following day, after Amman Radio sketchily outlined the raid as a joint Israeli-Iranian venture, did Israel give its own version of events...
Begin built his rationale for the attack on Iraqi documents. Following the September raid by Iran on the Tammuz reactor, Iraq issued a statement that Begin read from a Baghdad newspaper. Quoted Begin: "The Iranian people should not fear the Iraqi nuclear reactor, which is not intended to be used against Iran, but against the Zionist enemy." He added that the imminent start-up of the reactor would enable Iraq to begin manufacturing, "in the near future, between three and five Hiroshima-type nuclear bombs of 20 kilotons...
...somehow confer legitimacy on our besieged buddies? And how many times has that policy failed? One of the most tragic case studies in the bankruptcy of that mentality came in Iran. While no one could approve the taking of American hostages by the Islamic militants, the depth of the Iranian's hatred of Americans convincingly illustrated how badly our previous actions in Iran backfired...
That was the encouraging message offered by TIME'S Board of Economists. Members were confident that, barring some new reduction in supply, such as first occurred in the wake of the Iranian revolution and later during the Iran-Iraq war, prices will remain stable for perhaps the next 18 months or so. Said Energy Economist James McKie of the University of Texas, who joined the TIME board last week: "I think the cartel will maintain a real price in 1980 dollars of around $35 per bbl. I don't anticipate that there will be any major decline below...