Word: iranians
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HASHEMI RAFSANJANI Clinton nixes American development of offshore Iranian oil fields...
...families are drawing from savings to pay for food. The dinar, which traded a year ago at 150 to the dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There is widespread grumbling in Saddam's 350,000-man army and even dissent within the alite Republican Guard. "He's feeling the greatest pressure he's felt since the Gulf War," says a senior U.S. official monitoring the country...
Classical Persian music and poetry filled the oak-paneled Eliot Library last night as over 60 students and community members celebrated the Noruz, the Iranian New year...
...Houston based subsidiary of the Du Pont corporation, Conoco won a contract with the Iranian government to develop two off-shore oil fields in the Persian Gulf in a deal reputedly worth approximately one billion dollars...
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq -- the chief opponents of President Saddam Hussein -- claim to have wounded the leader's oldest son, Udai, in a Baghdad murder attempt and nearly assassinated the country's defense minister. Iranian radio reports said both assassination attempts occurred in the last 48 hours. TIME Istanbul contributor James Wilde says the Kurdish attacks are also disturbing neighboring Turkey, a strong U.S. ally already preoccupied by a series of domestic riots this week...