Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absurd. It's ridiculous. It's hard to believe." With those words, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas last week voiced his indignation over the news that the U.S. imported some $700 million in Iranian oil during the summer. In response, the minority leader sponsored a bill to ban all imports from Iran, which passed the Senate the next day, 98 to 0. Said Dole: "It's time to end this absurdity...
Meanwhile, Iranian officials continued to vow retribution for the U.S. attack on the ship Iran Ajr, whose crew was caught laying mines in Persian Gulf waters two weeks ago. Declared Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani: "It is sweeter for us to have a direct confrontation with the U.S. because we would be fighting with the root cause of the war." In the gulf, however, Iran avoided any confrontation with U.S. warships as the tanker war raged anew...
...asked for the death penalty for all 90 defendants, which would have provided the , fundamentalists with a large crop of martyrs and further energized their attacks on the government. The militants were charged with trying to overthrow the secular, pro-Western regime of President Habib Bourguiba and install an Iranian-style Islamic republic. Some of the seven sentenced to hang were implicated in the August bombings of four tourist hotels, in which twelve foreigners were hurt...
...After Iranian President Khamenei denied before the U.N. that the Ajr had been laying mines, U.S. diplomats briefly hoped that the 15-member Security Council would be emboldened into a unanimous vote for an arms embargo against Iran. But Khamenei had scoffed at the U.N. as a "paper factory for issuing worthless and ineffective orders," and the futility of the sanctions effort seemed to prove his point. Last July the council unanimously called for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, which Iraq declared it would accept. But Iran stalled, refusing to clarify its intentions even when visited...
NATION: The U. S. blasts a boatload of Iranian minelayers in the gulf...