Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-Iraq war approaches its third anniversary, the government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini still hopes to overthrow the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who began the conflict by invading Iran. But since the fighting shifted to Iraqi territory last summer, the war has essentially remained in stalemate, characterized by fierce and bloody battles followed by long periods of inactivity. Now, however, there are reports in the Arab world that the Saddam Hussein government is hurting badly, not so much from the Iranian offensive as from the punishing cost...
There is speculation that if the economic crunch continues, Iraq's military leaders and party officials might band together and ask Saddam Hussein to resign. But it is also possible that the prospect of an Iraqi collapse would so worry Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states that they would substantially intensify their efforts to keep Saddam Hussein afloat...
...splinter groups that are just as radical: the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by Naif Hawatmeh, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, led by Ahmed Jibril. Both also enjoy strong support from Syria. Other groups include the Libyan-and Iraqi-backed Popular Struggle Front and Saiqa, a guerrilla force that serves practically as a division of the Syrian army...
...when a storm toppled a rig in Iran's Nowruz oil field at the northern tip of the gulf. The well had already been damaged two years ago, when a tanker rammed the platform, causing almost 2,000 bbl. a day to pour into the sea. In March, Iraqi helicopter gunships bombed at least two other wells in the same oil field. Those wells began leaking up to 5,000 additional...
...fire in the war that Iraq started in 1980 and that it is now eager to end. Iran, on the other hand, may expect the deteriorating environment to help split Iraq from Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states, which have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the Iraqi war effort. If such hopes are being nurtured in the Iranian capital of Tehran, they are unrealistic. Both sides in the Iran-Iraq war are, as a Western diplomat puts it, "obsessed with getting the maximum military and propaganda advantage" from the spill. Under the shadow of such rampant obstructionism...