Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...servants than our captors... They give us magazines, cards and good food. They even do our washing." Then he accused the U.S. embassy of engaging in espionage. He also claimed that an officer had discussed a military coup against the Khomeini regime with a CIA man and some Iranian officers. U.S. officials in Washington dismissed Subic's charges...
...that would effectively squeeze Iran. The country has increasingly rerouted its trade to the north by land through the Soviet Union and is doing more business with the Warsaw Pact countries. Says a U.S. Commerce Department official: "There are eight planeloads of Polish meat flying into Iran every day. Iranian airports are littered with cargo planes from Rumania and East Germany. And the Iranians are very resourceful with whatever they get. Villagers in remote areas manufacture sophisticated weapons from car axles-yes, car axles...
...House aides, and were briefed on Monday just before Carter announced the steps he was taking. FLAG plans to help the families deal with the complicated financial and legal problems stemming from the takeover of the embassy, including the possibility of bringing suits to get damages from the frozen Iranian assets...
Though it remained essentially a propaganda war, the quarrel between those traditional rival powers of the Middle East, Iran and Iraq, threatened last week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab...
Relations between Iraq and Iran have been deteriorating ever since the Iranian revolution brought Khomeini to power last year. One of the more curious aspects of the tensions is that Khomeini spent 13 years in exile in Iraq, preparing for the uprising that eventually ousted his enemy, the Shah. But in 1978, apparently as part of a continuing effort to improve its often tempestuous relations with the Shah, Iraq's government asked Khomeini to leave the country, thereby obliging him to spend the last four months of his exile in France. Khomeini has neither forgotten nor forgiven that insult...