Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEGGAR, by F. M. Esfandiary. The injustice of justice and the crime of punishment are shrewdly displayed in this fiercely ironical parable-composed by an Iranian-in-exile-that demonstrates how the devil takes the hindmost when men play...
...avoid open revolt among its own 3,000,000 Kurds-has not strained itself trying. Last month Iraqi troops, opening yet another "offensive" against "Barzani's gang," pursued Kurdish rebels across the ill-defined border into Iran, while Iraqi MIG jets strafed Kurds in villages on the Iranian side. Iran charged that a 150-man Iraqi force shelled the Iranian village of Tang-e-Hammam, executed two captured Iranian gendarmes, and hacked their bodies to bits...
Iraq denied all-then accused Iranian border guards of "accompanying Kurdish infiltrators" three kilometers in side Iraq. Back came Iran with the protest that 100 armed Iraqis had invaded Iran again, attacking Iranian nationals and rustling cattle. Last week Iran accused Iraq of four more air attacks, listed a total of seven Iranians dead and 20 wounded in the frontier fray...
...Iranian Foreign Minister Ghollam Abbas Aram used the flare-up to resurrect another longstanding dispute between the two countries over the Shatt-al-Arab River, whose waters, which empty into the Persian Gulf, they are supposed to share. Aram accused Iraq of obstructing Iranian traffic, ignoring a 1937 agreement that was meant to regulate use of the river waters. Announced Aram: "The Iranian government regards the agreement as breached." With that, Iran ordered a mobilization of its forces along the border, alerted its elite Kermanshah Division, scrambled its U.S.-built supersonic F-5 jet fighters, vowing to "silence the voice...
...BEGGAR, by F. M. Esfandiary. The injustice of justice and the crime of punishment are shrewdly displayed in this fiercely ironical parable, composed by an Iranian-in-exile, that demonstrates how the devil takes the hindmost when men play...