Word: khomeini
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...reconnaissance information indicates that Iranian troops are concentrated near the port of Basra, the site of Iraq's major oil production facilities; in the center, near Amara, where Iranian troops are solidly entrenched within 200 miles of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital; and in the north, where Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has persuaded Kurdish dissidents to foment new trouble for the regime of President Saddam Hussein. In Tehran last week, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammed Salimi, sounded a clear-cut warning: "Despite the superpowers' opposition, a push into Iraqi territory has become inevitable...
...support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions in the gulf sheikdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates). Those states and Saudi Arabia have poured at least...
...Washington's lack of concern about the consequences of an Iranian invasion of Iraq. Indeed, some Arab analysts believe that Saddam Hussein's forthcoming battle could prove to be the most crucial military encounter in the Middle East in recent times. They predict that a Khomeini sweep into Iraq, conducted with the backing of the Soviet Union, would establish a pro-Iranian regime in Iraq that would then make its peace with Syria...
...Iran and Iraq (before the war, combined output reached as high as 8 million bbl. per day) to pay for such arms. More important, Islamic revolutionary ardor could rapidly sweep through the gulf sheikdoms, as well as Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern province, particularly if encouraged by Khomeini militants who are so imbued with the notion of a Shi'ite holy crusade. As Iran's military machine gathers its strength at the Iraqi frontier, the leaders of the Arab gulf states are beginning to fear that such a hypothetical possibility is drawing closer to reality every...
...characterization of Yasser Arafat's policies as "relatively moderate" makes him sound like a middle-of-the-road American politician. He is moderate only in comparison with such immoderates as Gaddafi and Khomeini. On any other scale, Arafat, who has advocated the elimination of Israel, and who is probably the person most responsible for the proliferation of worldwide terrorism, would be recognized as the extremist that...