Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iranian military intelligence units patrolling the hills northwest of the border town of Bostan flashed a warning: the Iraqis were about to attack Tang-e-Chazzabeh, a narrow mountain pass straddling the frontier. Two dozen Iranian crews manning field guns and Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers were awaiting the signal from their commanding officer. Sure enough, an Iranian forward observer spotted the columns of Iraqi armor and infantry on the move. He called "Now!" into his walkie-talkie. The commanding officer yelled "Fire!" The guns roared and the missiles blasted off toward the attacking Iraqi units...
Iran's inch-by-inch recovery of its territory began last September, when it broke the grip of the Iraqi army around the key oil refinery city of Abadan. The Iranians also launched a series of successful attacks on Iraqi positions along the southern segment of the border between the two countries. In addition, the Iranians have recovered a total of about 155 sq. mi. of land at different points along the 625-mile front...
That bizarre border battle two weeks ago was characteristic of the brand of bloody warfare the Iranians have been waging, with growing success, in an 18-month-old holy war against their Iraqi invaders. By combining conventional infantry and artillery tactics with suicidal attacks by fanatic Islamic Guards and irregulars, the Iranians have recaptured a considerable part of the territory they lost to the Iraqis immediately after the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980, the beginning...
...Sinai; he maintained to his death that he had never signed a separate peace. They were angered by his trip to Jerusalem; even more, they resented his unwillingness to change course when the autonomy talks seemed to be going nowhere. They blamed him for the Israeli raid on the Iraqi reactor last June, which took place just three days after Sadat and Begin had talked in the Sinai. Either Sadat had approved the raid on Arab territory, they said, or he had been duped by the Israelis...
...Cairo to provide autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, or both. The Reagan Administration has proved notably unwilling to lean on Israel in any way that would assuage Arab fears. Washington's ineffectual protests against Israeli air raids on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, and on Palestinian areas of Beirut, were widely and bitterly noted in the Arab world. The Arabs, moreover, have been unmoved by U.S. pressures to form a "strategic consensus" against the Soviet threat. They regard Israel's intransigence on the Palestinian question as a more immediate provocation...