Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow, which has been frozen out of the Middle East by its failure to give any effective support to its Syrian, Iraqi and P.L.O. allies, would certainly jump at any invitation. At a Kremlin dinner last week for President Ali Nasser Mohammed of South Yemen, Brezhnev denounced Reagan's plan as "basically vicious" and put forward one of his own that paralleled the Fez resolutions. Israelis, Arabs and Americans all appraised it, accurately, as containing little...
...does its international position. The surprise Iranian offensive against Iraq that began on July 13 has been repulsed, creating an unprecedented crisis of morale on the home front. Iranian army officers blame the failure of the military thrust, which was designed to bring down the Baathist regime of Iraqi...
Khomeini is anxious to continue his war against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and U.S. intelligence sources expect another attack on the strategic Iraqi city of Basra, located on the Persian Gulf in the heart of Iraq's oil-producing region, within the next few weeks. But for the first time, Iranian mullahs are having difficulty recruiting volunteers to die for their cause. Complains Hojjatoleslam Rouhani, chairman of the defense committee of the Majlis: "Only some valorous and militant youths go to the fronts, and the others loaf around with no sense of responsibility." The mullahs...
...feeling no responsibility for the fate of other Jews. Politics thus is more than government or party work to Begin. It is about the survival of a people. He recently listed the five most important things he had accomplished as Prime Minister. They were: 1) the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, 2) the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, 3) the annexation of the Golan Heights, 4) Project Renewal, a nationwide slum rehabilitation program, and 5) the establishment of more Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza...
...panic grew as two bombs exploded the following day, one targeted at a Jewish-run business, the other at the Iraqi embassy. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin called on French Jews to "protect yourselves if your government cannot." The situation was getting out of hand...