Word: iranians
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...Israeli public had not turned against him; but neither had it rallied to him as he established a new reputation as a tough leader. After bashing Lebanon with artillery, missile boats, F-16 jets and helicopter gunships, Israel had not achieved even one of its military objectives. Hizballah, the Iranian-backed militia that has been fighting Israel in Lebanon since 1982, was still sending Katyusha rockets into the Galilee. And despite extensive damage to Lebanon's infrastructure and the death of some 160 civilians, support for the guerrillas was growing in Lebanon. With general elections just four weeks away, Peres...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich created a special panel to investigate the Clinton Administration's role in Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia in defiance of an international embargo imposed in 1992. Gingrich's call for an investigation came a day after a State Department official said that the administration tacitly approved the 1994 arms transfers because of the Bosnians' desperate military situation. "President Clinton's policy of virtually inviting Iran into Europe could have disastrous results for America," said Gingrich. "The president undertook this reckless policy hastily and then kept it secret from Congress, the American people...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich created a special panel to investigate the Clinton Administration's role in Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia in defiance of an international embargo imposed in 1992. Gingrich's call for an investigation came a day after a State Department official said that the administration tacitly approved the 1994 arms transfers because of the Bosnians' desperate military situation. "President Clinton's policy of virtually inviting Iran into Europe could have disastrous results for America," said Gingrich. "The president undertook this reckless policy hastily and then kept it secret from Congress, the American people...
Operation "Grapes of Wrath," which was continuing at the end of last week, is a series of coordinated Israeli raids against Hizballah, the Iranian-backed militia that has been fighting the Israelis in south Lebanon since 1982. The crisis was touched off by two recent Hizballah rocket attacks on northern Israel--both of which were themselves provoked by Israeli episodes involving the death of several Lebanese civilians outside the nine-mile "security zone" that Israel occupies in Lebanon. On Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres ordered three strikes against the Hizballah in Lebanon, including the raid on Beirut in which...
Habibi congratulated the Hamas representatives on the previous bombings in Israel and urged them to keep up the attacks. Habibi promised more financial aid and extra training at bases in Lebanon supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Tehran said it would also press Damascus to let Hamas fighters continue to operate in Syria and in Syrian-controlled sectors of Lebanon. After the latest attacks, will all these be empty promises...