Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khorramshahr was once a bustling port with a population of 150,000. Weeks of fierce house-to-house fighting between Iran's fanatical Revolutionary Guards and Iraqi infantrymen have turned it into a ghost town, as its inhabitants have fled inland to the safety of mountain camps or bolted across the contested Shatt al Arab waterway to seek refuge in Basra. On a tour of Khorramshahr last week, TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak found very few signs of life; emaciated dogs foraged for scraps in the rubble, swarthy Iraqi soldiers lounged in the shade as they listened to the echo...
...long as Iraqi armed forces are present in Iran, we cannot consider any peace proposal," President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr said yesterday on Tehran radio...
...subsequent Iraqi invasion was merely an act of "preventive self-defense." The territory now occupied by Iraq constituted "the necessary positions for defense," Hammadi said, adding ominously that "there may be better positions forward." He insisted that there could be no withdrawal until Iran recognized all of Iraq's territorial claims, including sovereignty over the Shatt al Arab estuary. The only possible solution to the conflict, said the Iraqi diplomat, would be a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire immediately followed by negotiations to adjust the boundaries "in a final manner...
...Iranians, who have refused all negotiations while Baghdad's soldiers remain on their soil, were indignant over the Iraqi letter. Railed one senior Iranian civil servant: "We shall see how much insolence Saddam retains when we put him on trial as a war criminal...
...From his home in exile in Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...