Word: khomeini
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...know that the U.S. is siding with Iraq while an ally of ours, Israel, has been helping Iran. Iraq has been a friend of the Soviet Union, and Iran has vowed that it will "destroy" Israel. The Soviet Union is now aiding Khomeini against Iraq. I am dizzy...
...trip to Algiers two weeks ago, Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi spelled out those terms and stressed Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve...
Iran's intransigent stand toward negotiations augurs more death and destruction. After meeting with Khomeini last week, Brigadier General Qassem Ali Zahirnejad, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "We have bigger operations in store that we shall unleash in order to put the enemy in his place. If we stay idle, Saddam himself or another Saddam will attack...
...fighting went on, Saddam Hussein tried to get new pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a peace deal could be worked out, Abdullah claimed, Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay Iran for war reparations. Said Abdullah: "Any price in terms of money is worth it if we can get rid of this pestilence...
...life into Saddam Hussein's regime. The Iraqi strongman seems to have been vindicated in the belief that his troops would fight tenaciously once they were protecting their own territory. Moreover, his assiduous courtship of Iraqi Shi'ites, who make up 55% of the population, has blunted Khomeini's call for insurgency. But Saddam Hussein's ultimate test still lies ahead: both he and Khomeini realize that their bitter rivalry will be resolved only when one of them is swept from power. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Dean Brelis/Baghdad and Raji Samghabadi/New York