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...country. The conditions put forward by Rafsanjani for restoring relations with the U.S. are the same ones he put forward during the life of the Imam ((Khomeini)). They are that America should stop its aggressive policy against Iran and that America can express that by releasing the frozen Iranian assets...
...will be difficult for the U.S. to free Iranian assets so long as American hostages are being held in Lebanon...
...Paris, UTA chairman Rene Lapautre said a terrorist bomb "was the most probable" explanation for the crash. Hours later the Muslim terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Two weeks ago, the Lebanese and French press reported that pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon have threatened action against France for reneging on an alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling...
Iran has often charged Saudi Arabia with failing to protect the sacred sites of Islam. But when Iranian visitors staged riots during the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in 1987, Saudi security forces did not hesitate before attempting to quell the disturbances. More than 400 people, most of them Iranians, died during the violent clashes, leading to a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries the following year. Last week the Saudis demonstrated their resolve to punish disrupters of the hajj. In the largest public execution in recent years, swordsmen in Mecca publicly beheaded 16 Kuwaiti...
...bombings, which killed one Pakistani pilgrim, may also have had an Iranian connection. Saudi television broadcast what it said was the confession of the ringleader, Mansour Hassan Abdullah Mehmeid, 32. He and some of his accomplices had received Iranian training, said Mehmeid, and "collected the explosives from the back door of the Iranian embassy in Kuwait...