Word: iraqis
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...military front, Khomeini's forces remain fiercely motivated after two crucial victories this year against the troops of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iran recently launched a new drive to create 1,000 new battalions of Revolutionary Guards. Many experts say Khomeini is preparing an all-out assault against Basra, Iraq's second largest city, in an effort to break the deadlock in the war. Says a senior international-relief official who has worked on both sides of the marshy trenches: "The Iranians are certainly beginning to act as if victory is now within reach...
...Mujahedin guerrillas. Last week a car bomb exploded in the bustling heart of the capital during rush hour, leaving 20 people dead. Three days earlier a similar explosion took 13 lives in the holy city of Qom. By week's end the government claimed to have crushed two Iraqi-sponsored "terrorist networks," made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed each other for the blast, which killed Fazeli's 22-year...
...momentum in the seesaw war has increasingly swung in Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians...
During the stalemated six-year war along their 730-mile border, Iran and Iraq have resorted to attacking tankers plying the waters of the Persian Gulf. Last week Iraqi pilots scored a strategic breakthrough when they struck Sirri Island, a key Iranian oil terminal that was thought to be beyond the reach of Iraq's fighter-bombers...
Despite the new vulnerability of the oil exports that finance Iran's war effort, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini remains determined to fight until he destroys the regime of Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. Although Iran has a slight edge in the land war, Iraq in recent weeks has stepped up air attacks against targets deep inside Iran. In a retaliatory move hours before the Sirri attack, Iran for the first time in a year fired a Soviet-made Scud missile at Baghdad. Iraq said the weapon caused no damage...