Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tabriz raided and ransacked the headquarters of the Muslim People's Republic Party, which professes loyalty to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Four people were killed in the predawn assault; eleven dissidents were captured and executed by a firing squad after a summary trial. According to reports from Kuwait, several Iranian army officers were secretly executed for plotting a military coup against Khomeini's theocratic regime...
Four council members abstained: Bangladesh, Czechoslovakia, Kuwait and the U.S.S.R. During the debate, Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky complained that the U.S. resolution was too belligerent and therefore could not be supported by his government. He made no mention of the fact that as he spoke, his government's tanks were rolling through Afghanistan. The Soviet envoy's hypocrisy seemed to anger McHenry. Asked by a reporter after the debate whether the Soviets had abstained rather than vetoing the resolution because of a secret deal with the U.S., he snapped: "That is an obscene accusation. A country that...
...government official from Bahrain, a Middle Eastern nation bordering Saudi Arabia, believes the U.S. should send troops into Afghanistan. He explained the Middle East is divided into right and left wings. The right wing--Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Emerites, Kuwait, Egypt and Quatar--lost faith in the U.S. when it didn't actively support the Shah, he said. "They are afraid the same thing will happen to them," he said...