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Laurie Mylroie, a government instructor andassistant director of the Center for MiddleEastern Studies, said that what is left in Iran is"a revolutionary core" and that the Americangovernment was "working with the Khomeini regimeand not a moderate faction...
Joining the fray from Iran, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared to squelch one of Reagan's last chances to salvage something from the wreckage of his secret initiative to Tehran. Though Reagan announced at his news conference that there would be no more arms deliveries, he expressed a rather wan hope that the U.S. could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with...
...targets. In the process, 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...
...superiority in manpower. By concentrating troops along a wide front, Iran manages to keep Iraq off-balance and its own forces engaged. Despite the terrible cost in lives (an estimated 250,000 Iranians have perished, vs. 100,000 Iraqis thus far), the war has served a valuable purpose for Khomeini by distracting Iranians from the failure of the revolution. While most observers believe that not even the death of the 86-year-old leader would bring an Iranian withdrawal, it would probably soften Tehran's attitude toward negotiations...
...warning signal should have gone up when the Iranians started asking for arms. The White House argues that the Iranians involved were taking great personal risks dealing with a nation that the Ayatullah Khomeini regularly denounces as the Great Satan. The Iranians had to be assured that the emissaries they met were acting with Reagan's authority, and so they demanded arms transfers that only the President could authorize. Perhaps so. But it is also possible that what they were really doing was subjecting the U.S. to a crude form of blackmail...