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...gulf, Moscow is trying to keep lines open to Iran -- in hopes, no doubt, that the U.S.S.R. will fare better with a post-Khomeini leadership than it has with the Ayatullah himself. But the Soviets are also cultivating better ties with the conservative and moderate Arab states of the region...
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia likes to remain on good terms with his neighbors. That is not easy when Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is one of them. Still & angry at the Islamic republic for provoking riots during the 1987 Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia last week broke diplomatic ties with Iran. The move followed collapse of negotiations aimed at reducing the number of Iranians who will undertake this year's pilgrimage from 150,000 to 45,000 in order to help prevent new rioting...
...hijackers and the 17 prisoners appear to share religious ties. Sixteen of the men jailed in Kuwait are Shi'ite Muslims who are thought to support Iran and its leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Hostages released from the jetliner said the gunmen often spoke in religious terms. Sherif Mahrojk Badrawi, a Kuwait Airways ticket agent in Cairo, called them "good Muslims" who "spoke to us in a very Koranic language. They were always using verses from the Koran." The hijackers are thought to belong to Hizballah, a radical Shi'ite group...
...Government built its case on more than 100 wiretapped telephone conversations in which El Rukns used a complicated code to discuss terrorist schemes. "The young friend" was a code name for Gaddafi, "the old man" meant Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. "Apples" and "potatoes" referred to explosives...
Even as Saddam Hussein spoke, his air force was busy in the Persian Gulf battering the shipping that keeps Tehran's coffers filled with oil wealth. Baghdad claimed to have hit eleven tankers off the coast of Iran during the week. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, meanwhile, called all able-bodied male Iranians to combat, a signal that Tehran may be ready to launch a major offensive...