Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last-minute intervention by Khomeini might have produced a solution: most of the holdouts in the Majlis swear obedience to him, but he showed no inclination to act. On the contrary, in a major speech to the nation on Thursday, Khomeini reiterated his absurd charge of U.S.-Iraqi complicity in the invasion of Iran, but he pointedly ignored the hostage issue, an indication that he intended to leave their fate up to the Majlis...
...between Iraq and Iran raged into its seventh week, there were few signs that a decisive victory or a cease-fire would soon end the fighting. After seizing control of Khorramshahr on the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway, Iraqi troops mercilessly pounded the besieged refinery city of Abadan with artillery and tank fire. But fierce resistance by Iranian army troops, Revolutionary Guards and urban guerrillas halted the invaders at a key bridge over the Karun River, north of the embattled city. As the Iraqis shelled other major towns in oil-rich Khuzistan province, Iran struck back at enemy positions with...
...Iraqi surprise attack bogged down? Military analysts had several answers. One was that the Iraqis were following a plodding. Soviet-inspired strategy requiring large quantities of cumbersome materiel that hampered rapid troop movements. Another was that the overconfident Iraqis had misjudged Iran's capacity to resist and had prepared themselves only for a brief blitzkrieg. A further Iraqi miscalculation was to assume that the Khomeini regime would crumble at the first military attack because of internal dissensions...
Tehran has not yet managed to launch a major counteroffensive, but Iranian ground troops have reportedly driven the Iraqis back at some points. Said a senior Iranian military officer: "As you go north from Abadan, our position steadily improves. From Ham all the way to Baveysi we have the initiative and the Iraqis have been regularly falling back." Iranian sources said last week that most of the 1 million residents of the Khuzistan cities under Iraqi attack had reportedly fled either to central Iran or to nearby mountain refuges. One farfetched rumor had it that if the Iraqis captured Ahwaz...
...fight. Addressing members of the Irani an parliament at a mosque near Tehran last week, the 80-year-old revolutionary leader angrily declared that "peace is not acceptable" with Iraq. Saddam's "crimes were "incomparable in history," thundered Khomeini, and there could be no compromise until the Iraqi leader "repents and says 'I have become a Muslim.' " Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi, meanwhile, spelled out his country's tough position in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The war had begun, he asserted, when Iran had shelled Iraqi border posts on Sept...