Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab people have shown their "desires to live in peace" with minorities in the Middle East by systematically depriving minorities of their rights throughout the Arab world. One need only mention the Kurds and Jews in Syria, Greek and Coptic Christians in Egypt, Berbers in Algeria, and Assyrians in Iraq to recall the magnitude of this campaign of Arab subjugation. One needn't cite (to a binationalist) the massacres of thousands of Kurds in Iraq and half a million Blacks in Sudan; after all, the argument goes, these people had it coming to them for opting out of binationalism...
...some military experts, Iran has far more arms than it needs to protect its borders, a fact that worries other Gulf nations. In defense of the buildup, Iranian military officials argue that their country has potentially antagonistic neighbors in the Soviet Union and Iraq and that the country has a particular responsibility to defend and keep open the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which pass tankers carrying more than half of the West's oil supply...
Nonetheless, other Gulf states have responded by undertaking weapons-expansion programs. Iraq has already received MIG fighters, heavy artillery and the Scud surface-to-surface missiles, which can be fitted with nuclear warheads, from the Soviets; in addition to the American A-4 Skyhawks, Kuwait is ordering Mirages from France; even tiny Abu Dhabi, a member sheikdom of the United Arab Emirates, has obtained C-130 transports and Mirages...
...Moslem country, has never been fully trusted by its Semitic Arab neighbors. Experts do not rule out a future conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Tehran's support of the Kurdish rebellion against Baghdad, as well as longstanding frontier disputes, has already led to skirmishing on the Iran-Iraq border. New Delhi, meanwhile, grows progressively more uncomfortable as it watches Iran's military muscle edge toward the Indian Ocean, fearing that Tehran one day will ally itself with Pakistan, a fellow Moslem state, against India...
...will break up soon. Its members have proved that they have the cohesiveness to cut oil production at sharply varying rates in order to maintain the $10.80 price. Over the past year, the OPEC nations as a whole reduced output by 21%. Some countries have cut back even more: Iraq by 27%, Kuwait by 39%, Libya by 72%. They may well reduce production further instead of competing among each other and slashing prices. The producers feel that they ultimately gain more by pumping less at the current high price than by pumping more at lower prices...