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...drive had the Koranic code name Walfajr, for "I swear by the dawn." But Iranian leaders were also calling it "the last blow to Baghdad," and noting that it was timed to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iranian revolution led by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Declared Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Hojjatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The people expect this offensive to be the final military operation that will determine the destiny of the region...
Chanting "Long live Khomeini" and Death to the fugitive," 15 Iranians protested a speech at the Law School yesterday by a former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations...
About 90 people attended the speech, in which the exiled former advisor to Iranian President Bani-Sadr said he was "not only disillusioned but in active opposition to the Khomeini regime...
...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 guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later, Aziz and Rajavi issued a joint communiqué calling for a halt to hostilities and a negotiated settlement...
Adding to Khomeini's troubles, police in West Germany arrested the Ayatullah's son-in-law, Sadegh Tabatabai, 39, upon his arrival in Düsseldorf two weeks ago. A "special ambassador," Tabatabai helped negotiate the release of the U.S. hostages in 1981. He was charged with illegal possession of 3.3 lbs. of raw opium...