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...seven weeks, TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis was stationed in Iraq, reporting on the war with Iran and studying the mood of the nation as it fought to stave off the furious offensive launched by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Shortly after leaving last week for Amman, the Jordanian capital, Brelis filed his impressions of embattled Iraq...
...cost of the war is being felt here, not because the Iraqis are losing on the battlefield but because this nearly landlocked country is experiencing a severe economic pinch after 23 months of fighting. The vastly superior Iranian navy, which the Ayatullah Khomeini inherited from the late Shah, has effectively sealed off the vital Shatt al Arab waterway. With the exception of military hardware, which is flown in, Iraq's supplies must arrive by land routes from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Result: astronomical consumer prices. A quart bottle of drinking water costs $25. If you are desperate...
...Khomeini's fanatical army breaks through the Iraqi lines and captures Basra, the reverberations will shake all of Western Europe and Japan. According to one highly placed Western diplomatic source, "The fall of Basra would bring the crash of the Frankfurt stock market. Every blue-chip company in West Germany has a big stake here. They have close to $5 billion invested in development projects in Iraq." The Japanese also have $5 billion staked on Saddam's survival. France is not far behind. The U.S. is in for just under $ 1 billion...
...when it is not squinting against the blowing sand. An Iraqi bulldozer is pushing the corpses into a hastily dug burial ground. Pennants were found among the bodies, reading NEXT STOP, AN NAJAF, the Shi'ite holy city in central Iraq where Khomeini spent 14 years in exile plotting the overthrow of the Shah...
...view of my friend, the Basra merchant, that the Shi'ites may not be as loyal to the Saddam government as we are told. There are two fronts in Iraq today: the battlefield in the desert, and the Shi'ite fifth column in the cities waiting for Khomeini's forces to arrive...