Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported in yesterday's editions that the CIA has secretly given Iraq detailed information to assist Iraqi bombing raids on Iran's oil terminals and power plants in the war between the two countries...
...Post also quoted sources as saying CIA Director William Casey met in October and again in November with senior Iraqi officials to make sure an improved communications link was functioning and to encourage more attacks on Iranian installations...
After six years of bloody warfare with Iraq, a Moslem but Arab neighbor, the Republic has achieved most but not all of its objectives. It has liberated its occupied territories. It has crossed the international borders at three locations and now occupies Iraqi land equivalent to nearly 10 percent of its own territory lost to Iraq...
...continues because of Iran's failure, so far, to achieve two other goals. It has not successfully made a decisive military breakthrough to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Nor has it been able to incite the Iraqi Shia population to an open rebellion in favor of Khomeini's version of an Islamic regime...
...PURSUIT OF THESE GOALS, Iran has devoted nearly 40 percent of its national budget and almost all of its oil revenue to the war effort. The recent decline in oil prices, cutting its national revenue by about 50 percent, plus the more effective use of Iraqi air power to intercept Iranian oil exports created a major crisis earlier this year. In response, Iran has been seeking the recovery of its credits and other assets in the West and even a resumption of the sale to the Soviets of natural gas, which was interrupted after the revolution...