Word: iraqis
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Last Monday evening thousands of Islamic Guards and volunteer troops, backed by several regular army divisions, swept across a flat plain toward Iraqi positions near the border of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. It was the beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...
...suffer from the bloodletting that began when Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980. Iranian leaders still boast that they will sweep across to Iraq's western frontiers, eventually overthrowing the regime of President Saddam Hussein. But so far, Tehran has managed to capture only a thin sliver of Iraqi border territory as a result of its offensive last summer, at a cost of an estimated 30,000 casualties...
Iraq's Saddam Hussein has been able to withstand his losses with the help of nearly $30 billion in Arab economic aid over the past two years. In anticipation of a renewed Iranian military offensive after the rainy season ends next month, the Iraqi regime has mounted a broad diplomatic effort to improve Baghdad's ties with the West and buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian...
...highly unusual for Aziz to deal with Rajavi, Tehran had more reason to be concerned about Aziz's meetings in Paris with Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali and with French officials. Egypt has provided Iraq with ammunition and spare parts. In response, the Iraqi regime, a hard-line Arab government that once advocated the ostracism of Egypt after it signed a peace treaty with Israel, has become an outspoken proponent of Egypt's return to the Arab fold. After meeting with Ghali, Aziz said that Baghdad was committed to the "total reintegration" of Egypt...
...French, in an effort to preserve a balance of power in the region, have sold Iraq more than $4 billion in arms since the war began. Although no figures on new arms sales were revealed, French officials agreed to triple imports of Iraqi crude oil to help Iraq pay for arms purchases. On his departure, a grateful Aziz warmly thanked his "French friends...