Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waging. Saddam Hussein has gradually distanced himself from the Soviet Union, even though Iraq has a friendship treaty with Moscow very similar to the one Syria just signed. Another cause of friction: Saddam Hussein has also been cracking down on pro-Moscow Communists inside Iraq. "To say that an Iraqi victory would be a Soviet victory is nonsense," says Arabist James Akins, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "Saddam Hussein is No. 1 on the Soviet hit list...
...fact remains that the Soviet Union is still No. 1 on Saddam Hussein's military shopping list. Iraqi reliance on Soviet arms gives Moscow a certain amount of influence on Baghdad, no matter how vigorously Saddam Hussein asserts his independence...
...entire world must know that Saddam's army has acted without mercy, without pity, like Hitler's army." With that fuming condemnation of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Iran's Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i opened a diplomatic front in the Persian Gulf war last week by taking his country's case to the United Nations. Addressing a session of the Security Council, Raja'i charged that "the cruel and despotic regime of Iraq" has bombed schools and hospitals in "its killing of innocent people...
While placatory on the hostages, Raja'i dismissed any possibility of a ceasefire in the war, repeating Iran's warning that it would not consider any cessation of hostilities so long as Iraqi troops remained on its soil. Still, his appearance at the U.N. could mean that Iran is finally edging out of its diplomatic shell. Some military and diplomatic observers spectulated that, for all its fierce military resistance, Iran might finally be beginning to hurt on the battlefield...
...Iraqi forces inched forward in their effort to capture and isolate the Iranian province of Khuzistan, but the Iranians continued to stave off the Iraqis' superior firepower. As in the past, the Iraqis churned out premature claims of victory. But at week's end, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and military regulars were still repulsing Iraqi assaults aimed at capturing Dezful's oil-pumping station. To the south, 80 miles away at Ahwaz, Iranian artillery fire was keeping Iraqi troops on the outskirts of the provincial capital...