Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a million people demonstrated in Tehran on Sunday, chanting "Revenge!" Pro-Iranian Shiite Moslems took to the streets in Beirut, Lebanon, and attacked' the empty Saudi Embassy...
...anti-American demonstration by Iranian pilgrims in Mecca last Friday led to clashes with Saudi riot police in which at least 402 people were killed, 275 of them Iranians. Hundreds were injured...
Saudi news media portrayed some Iranian pilgrims as terrorists. Iran vowed to overthrow the Saudi ruling family and seize its vast oil wealth...
Nearly all Iranian Moslems belong to the Shiite minority. Shiites have been at odds for 1300 years with the Sunni sect, which the Saudi royal family follows and which makes up 85 percent of the world's 850 million Moslems...
Saudi television showed a year-old film of Iranian pilgrims with weapons and explosives allegedly captured in their possession. Iranian pilgrims, described as operatives and activists, said in Farsi through interpreters that they tried to smuggle guns and explosives into Saudi Arabia during last year's hajj...