Word: ites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief rival is Montazeri, who has known Khomeini for at least 40 years and whose power base is the vast network of clerics who exert enormous influence over the population. It is widely believed that Montazeri's aides maintain close contacts with the Lebanese Shi'ite captors of the American hostages and that his militant supporters worked to block the efforts of Rafsanjani to trade arms for the captives held in Lebanon. According to this theory, Rafsanjani retaliated by arresting Hashemi and his associates on a variety of charges, and the hard-liners in turn put an end to Rafsanjani...
...condemned "any moves that may threaten the lives of innocent passengers." But in Lebanon, several terrorist groups, including the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. One survivor of the crash reported that the terrorists spoke with southern Lebanese accents, implying that they were indeed Shi'ite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini...
...grim Christmas Eve in West Beirut, a black Mercedes cruised through the seaside district of Ramlet al Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...
...expansion of Iranian-inspired Islamic fanaticism. But an outright Iranian victory could prove a mixed blessing. Moreover, just as the Tehran arms deal has backfired on the Reagan Administration, it might also turn out to be detrimental to Israel, for some of the weapons could be channeled to Shi'ite Muslim soldiers fighting Israeli troops in Lebanon...
...Iranian oil production has been reduced over the past year from 1.6 million bbl. a day to less than l million bbl., the minimum thought necessary to sustain Tehran's war effort. President Saddam Hussein, who invaded Iran in September 1980 out of fear that Khomeini's fundamentalist Shi'ite revolution would spread to Iraq, where the Shi'as constitute more than half the population, has little choice but to fight on as best...