Word: mashad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's conflicts at home and abroad have only inflamed popular zeal for Khomeini's Islamic revolution and its militant embrace of Muslim fundamentalism. When Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered his latest call to arms last week in the northeastern city of Mashad, thousands of cheering young men seemed ready to lay down their lives for the cause of their homeland. "Every day," reports a Western visitor to Tehran, "there are parades for people going to the front. People are still chanting, 'Death to America! Death to Saddam!' Death to just about everything...
...concurred a South Asian expert. "Coming down from the north and across from Afghanistan, they would have the eastern half of Iran before the U.S. could react. There is no force that could stop them. The only impediment the Soviets would face is one wretched Iranian infantry division in Mashad...