Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraqi citizens accustomed to official admonitions about how the three-year battle with their hated neighbor Iran is likely to grind on indefinitely, the pronouncement must have been startling. Meeting with visitors at his palace in Baghdad last week, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bravely ventured a prediction. "Victory is at hand and not far away," he told his guests."With God's help, the final defeat of the enemy is in sight and within our reach. He is like a slaughtered bull in his death throes...
...another grim chapter in the 34-month-old war between Iran and Iraq. Regular troops and Islamic Guards from Iran penetrated six miles into Iraq last week, pursuing Kurdish rebels who had raided Iranian government outposts and seizing a small Iraqi garrison at the border. The Iranian attack was typical of the pattern of the war. Major cross-border assaults are followed by fierce counterattacks, followed by exaggerated casualty claims. But even allowing for customary hyperbole, the toll was high. Iran claimed that its forces had killed or wounded 3,800 Iraqis; Iraq took credit for 1,400 Iranian casualties...
Military analysts believed the latest Iranian campaign, the biggest so far to take place in the rugged Zagros Mountains of Kurdistan, was essentially diversionary. Iraqi officials said they expected an imminent attack on the central front, only 80 miles from Baghdad, now that the rainy season was over...
Meanwhile, Iraqi intelligence has privately accused government and army officers in the United Arab Emirates of smuggling more than $1 billion worth of arms to Iran. According to the Iraqis, weapons that were originally destined for the Emirates' own military forces have been loaded onto dhows and shipped across the gulf to Iran...
...President's decision had little effect on the world's arms merchants. In the week after Carter announced the boycott, some 300 U.S. and Western European companies contacted Tehran with offers to sell munitions and other banned items. After the Iraqi invasion in September 1980, the Iranian air force set up an office in London's exclusive Kensington district to coordinate its purchases...