Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which he often speaks. In the midst of a rambling discourse on domestic issues, he turned to the subject of his army's victories against Iraq in the 20-month-old border war. In effect, Khomeini declared that, come what may, he would square accounts with his enemy Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom he described as already "dead." Said Khomeini: "I assure you, this corpse cannot be resuscitated...
Khomeini then turned his attention to nonaligned leaders who are scheduled to meet in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in September. Declared the Ayatullah: "You will earn yourselves eternal shame if you choose a dead murderer as your leader. You cannot cleanse him of the stains of his crimes, even if you use all the oceans of the world. Don't trouble yourselves...
...Iranian government has inflated its already extravagant demands ever since its army recaptured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces two weeks ago, causing some Iraqi soldiers to attempt to swim across the Shatt al Arab estuary to Iraqi territory. Iran is insisting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, payment of enormous reparations by Iraq or its Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations...
...next move is Khomeini's: to invade Iraq or merely to press from a distance for Saddam Hussein's overthrow. Iran is bolstering its forces along the border and claiming that it has "legitimate reasons" for invading Iraqi territory. But it is also emphasizing that it does not intend to widen the war to include the whole Persian Gulf, at least not unless the gulf states take hostile action against Tehran...
...Iraq (1968-79), who shared power with Saddam Hussein for several years and was finally replaced by him in July 1979. Thus power would remain in the hands of the politically dominant Sunni Muslims. But as a gesture to Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 60% of the Iraqi population, as well as to Ayatullah Khomeini, the Muslim world's ranking Shi'ite, a prominent Shi'ite would become Prime Minister...