Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Sebastian and told him of his "profound regret and great astonishment" at the Administration's response. Summing up the reaction by moderate Arabs, one senior Western ^ diplomat in Cairo declared, "The raid is going to leave scars, a lot more than were caused by the attack on the Iraqi reactor...
...shops of Baghdad, Iraq's capital, American cigarettes and Turkish beer are once again on sale. To Iraqi citizens, who watched the fifth anniversary of the war with Iran pass this week, the availability of products from abroad provided an unaccustomed sense of well-being. Another good omen is the imminent opening of a linkup with a Saudi pipeline to the Red Sea, which will permit Iraq to step up its vital oil exports by as much as 50%. The Iraqi government is even upbeat about the military situation. Says Information Minister Latif Nasif Jasim: "Our morale is excellent...
...after a respite of several weeks. Iraq opened the latest round with air attacks against Tehran, Iran's capital, and a dozen other cities. Iran in turn fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad, reportedly destroying part of a soccer stadium, and launched air strikes against nine other Iraqi targets. Iran apparently was also responsible for a rocket strike on a West German freighter in the gulf...
Iraq, whose air superiority over Iran is estimated at about 7 to 1, declared that it had rekindled the air war in retaliation for Iran's alleged involvement in an aborted car-bomb attempt on the life of the ruler of Kuwait, an Iraqi ally, two weeks ago; Tehran denies the charge. Iraq's basic problem is that it desperately wants to end the war it started 56 months ago, but does not know how to achieve that aim. The Iranian leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, continues to insist that hostilities will not end until the regime of Iraqi President Saddam...
...agency's safeguards system has seldom been openly called into question. In 1981, following the Israeli attack on Iraq's Tammuz reactor, two inspectors unconnected with the facility resigned, charging suspicious Iraqi delays in allowing agency visits at the site. But France subsequently revealed that under a secret agreement with Iraq, French technicians had kept a constant eye on the workings of the Tammuz plant. That same year, while negotiating an upgraded agreement with Pakistan over safeguards at its Canadian-built reactor, the agency, without alleging any wrongdoing, said that it was unable to certify the facility. About two years...