Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time was ripe. Because I was so clear in my resolve, I looked forward to the mission. The plans and training had been completed; the necessary helicopters and transport planes on American aircraft carriers had been stationed south of Iran or near by in such friendly countries as Oman and Egypt. We did not notify the leaders of these countries about the purpose of our visits, letting observers surmise that they involved aid to Afghan freedom fighters or some kind of mining operation along Iran's coast...
...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 $20 billion into Iraqi coffers to help keep the advancing Iranian forces at bay. If Iraq succumbs to Khomeini's aggression, it would probably become a Shi'ite-ruled Arab nation inclined to spread...
Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose alliance that links Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, met in Riyadh last week to consider a common plan. At a similar meeting last month, several gulf states had wanted to censure Syria for its support of Iran. The Saudis had argued successfully that Syria should not be isolated, especially since it was the only Arab country in a position to exercise a moderating influence on Iran. Last week Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister, Nasser Qaddour, declared that his country, despite its close ties...
...effort to track down the rumors about Soviet agents operating in the southeast began in Chah Bahar, an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman commanding the approaches to the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The mysterious new tower that had been spotted near the town turned out to be no Soviet listening post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent...
...while the Secretary of State was lukewarm. Nonetheless, both Secretaries and the White House staff agree that the U.S. must arm friendly nations, both to win their cooperation and to keep them from turning to the Soviets for weapons. Indeed, Haig in Morocco and Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were simultaneously pursuing the same objective: laying the diplomatic groundwork to secure a chain of facilities that the American Rapid Deployment Force might some day use to hopscotch from the U.S. to the Middle East on its way to counter a Soviet thrust...