Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President met separately with Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron, who delivered a "strong appeal" from Begin to rescind the order holding up delivery of the F-16s. Reagan answered that the Israelis should have considered a diplomatic route for resolving their worries about the Iraqi reactor; but, as one aide reported, "the President reaffirmed our strong and deeply rooted relationship with Israel," and obliquely assured Evron that...
This week the Arabs will ask the Security Council to condemn Israel. In addition to calling for sanctions, which almost certainly will be vetoed by Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U. N. Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi has demanded that the council order Israel to open its own atomic facilities for inspection and subject them to the safeguard system of the IAEA. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, on the other hand, has proposed making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone?a ploy that would require Arab states to recognize Israel as an equal partner...
Meanwhile, Iraqi reaction to the raid has continued to be remarkably restrained. The country's basic strategy so far seems to be to let Israel condemn itself with its own words. Iraq has already earned a wide measure of world sympathy. A violent, desperate act cannot yet be ruled out, but Iraq does not seem interested in wasting valuable support...
...induce Iran to join such an American-backed strategic "consensus" is a remote possibility at the moment, but Iraq, long an ally of the Soviet Union, is a conceivable candidate. Said he: "We see some shift in the Iraqi attitude, a greater sense of concern about Soviet imperialism in the Middle Eastern area." Despite Iraq's intense enmity toward Israel, and the fact that it has no diplomatic relations with the U.S., Haig said the situation should be reassessed because it is "not irreversible." In fact, an American envoy may be dispatched there next month to give Iraq...
...recent months, the Saudis have been meeting with five other Persian Gulf states* to lay the political underpinning for a proposed Gulf Council for Cooperation, which would bind the region with formal defense as well as economic and cultural ties. They have improved relations with a radical former adversary, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, to the extent that Riyadh was accused of complicity-or at least patent moral support -in Iraq's original assault against Iran...