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...greatest uncertainty Iran faces is what will happen when Khomeini, 81 and ailing, passes from the scene. Intense jockeying persists within the ranks of the ruling Shi'ite clergy, and even government officials acknowledge that the transfer of power poses great dangers...
...fundamentalist challenge is dangerous for Khomeini, particularly because his right-wing critics can outdo him in blind radicalism and rabble-rousing. An outstanding example of the obscure but dangerous figures growing angry with him is Sheikh Mahmoud Halabi, seventyish leader of a Shi'ite purist society. Halabi, says one Iranian writer, "is so right wing that compared with him, Khomeini is Karl Marx." Halabi criticizes the I.R.P. for its political accommodation with the Tudeh Party, Iran's pro-Moscow Communists. (The arrangement is designed to counter opposition from left-wing Muslims.) And he calls for a program against...
...result of a major miscalculation by Saddam. He attacked not only because he coveted the shared estuary but also because he wanted to appear to be the emerging leader of the Arab world. In addition, he was infuriated by the repeated calls by Khomeini to his fellow Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq, who form 55% of the country's population, to overthrow their President. Saddam was convinced that Iran, swept by revolution, would be unable to resist an Iraqi attack. But the war became one cause in which the multifarious factions of Iran could unite. Explains one Iranian...
Beirut, Aug. 31. A bomb exploded in an empty Middle East Airlines Boeing 720. There were no casualties. Lebanese officials suspected that the device was planted by Lebanese Shi'ite groups protesting the 1978 disappearance of their leader, Iranian-born Imam Musa Sadr...
...conflict has created a tangled skein of improbable alliances and rivalries. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the conservative oil sheikdoms of the gulf are aligned with radically socialist Iraq; Libya and Syria, which have predominantly Sunni Muslim populations, have sided with Iran, a non-Arab nation of Shi'ite Muslims. Last week these tensions within the Arab world reached a critical point...