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...term, reliable customers for its oil. Last year Iran launched a five-year campaign to attract $27 billion in foreign investment. So far, France, Italy, Germany and Austria, among others, have extended Iran more than $12 billion in credits. The U.S., however, continues to hold $11 billion in frozen Iranian assets and to impose a partial ban on the purchase of Iranian crude oil for sale...
...State Department once again insisted that to end its commercial and diplomatic isolation from the West, Iran must exert its influence to gain the release of the six American hostages thought to be held by pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki took an equally hard-nosed stance: although indicating that the ordeal of the hostages might end "soon," he repeated his country's long-standing demand that its funds in the U.S. be unfrozen...
...Dhaka to decide how to deal with her. Since the Nobel Peace laureate had flown in on a commercial flight, some officials argued that the materials needed to go through customs. About a month earlier, when Iraqi Kurds began fleeing en masse from Saddam Hussein's soldiers, the Iranian army struggled to cope with thousands of dying children. They were treated with antibiotics instead of rehydration salts, a more effective means of staving off life-threatening diarrhea...
What are Saddam Hussein's chances of retrieving the Iraqi air force jets that fled to Iran during the gulf war? About zero, estimates a senior Administration official. At first, he says, Pentagon analysts couldn't understand why the Iranians claimed that only 22 Iraqi fighter planes and transport aircraft had flown across the border "when we all knew they had 140." They know now. "Tehran has been very busy painting over" Iraqi markings, says the official. "Those planes are the new Iranian air force...
...Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful Shi'ite literary critic who upheld a death sentence against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, wants to be a best-selling author himself. Rafsanjani's co-author is offering the 400-page manuscript for Our Revolution: The Ideology Behind the Movement to U.S. publishing houses. Excerpts from the work show that the Ayatullah Khomeini's political heir still has a jaundiced view of the Great Satan. "Our real desire, from the beginning, was to humiliate the United States throughout the world," writes Rafsanjani. Moreover, Westerners "are members of the school...