Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syrian turnaround became clear with the release of the summit's final communique, in which the assembled sheiks, princes and Presidents unanimously condemned Iran, which Syria has backed in the seven-year Iran-Iraq war. The members of the Arab League, the declaration says, "voiced their indignation at the Iranian regime's intransigence, provocations and threats to the Arab gulf states" and "denounced the bloody, criminal acts" of the Iranians who rioted last summer in the holy city of Mecca...
...that Iran has provided his country as a reward for his support. As for Egypt, the participants were eager to mend relations with the Arab world's most populous and powerful state so that Cairo's 450,000-man army could be held up as a counterbalance to the Iranian threat. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, dressed in military garb and packing a revolver, called for a "rallying of Arab ranks in the face of the common danger...
During the hearings on the sordid Iranian and contra deals this summer, members of the committees were able to work together in unusual bipartisan harmony. But reaching a consensus on their final report was more difficult: all six Republican House members and two of the five Republican Senators refused to sign the majority report because they thought it too tough on Reagan and his men. They will instead issue a 150-page dissent...
...management style" for the scandals. The congressional report concludes that Reagan probably knew more than he has admitted about the arms sales and contra-funding efforts; if not, he is to be equally faulted. Without flatly rejecting Reagan's repeated assertions that he knew nothing of the diversion of Iranian profits to the contras, the majority report says that issue is unresolved. Thus it indirectly questions the credibility of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who swore that he approved the diversion and intentionally did not inform the President...
...spokesman for the People's Mujahedin, an Iranian resistance group, said last week that China not only continues to sell Silkworms to the Ayatullah Khomeini, but that last year more than 100 Revolutionary Guards and Iranian military men traveled to China for missile training. The spokesman said some of these trainees serve in the 26th Salman Missile Brigade, the unit responsible for the Silkworm attacks on Kuwait launched from the Iranian- occupied Fao peninsula in Iraq...