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...Abadan, Khuzistan's capital of Ahwaz, and the important communications junction of Dezful, 150 miles north of Khorramshahr. Outraged Iranian officials announced in midweek that Iraq had fired four Soviet-supplied surface-to-surface missiles on Dezful and neighboring Andimeshk, causing heavy casualties. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, calling the Iraqi action "insane," said that most of the 170 people killed and 300 wounded were civilians. Each of the missiles has a range of about 55 miles-approximately the distance from the Iraqi border to Dezful-and weighs...
...Vinogradov met with Iranian Prime Minister Raja'i and declared that Moscow was ready to provide military assistance to Tehran. Raja'i, a devout Muslim fundamentalist, flatly rejected the offer and criticized Moscow for its opportunism. "Nothing you may give us is worth our freedom, independence and Islamic revolution," he reportedly told the ambassador, adding that Iran had strong objections to the Soviets' arming of Iraq and invasion of Afghanistan. Adding insult to injury, Raja'i allowed the official Iranian news agency, PARS, to release a report on the talks. TASS responded by calling the stories...
...only from Iran but also from Iraq. When Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat showed up on a self-appointed mediation mission, Khomeini refused even to see him. And when Cuban President Fidel Castro sent a message urging Iran's acquiescence in a ceasefire, Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i reported contemptuously: "What do you [Cubans] think Iran is? A lackey of the superpowers...
...making decisions, although that was not readily apparent from the chaos in the long-awaited Majlis (parliament) debate last week. Finally, there are signs that the U.S. has begun more actively seeking a settlement, beginning with a conciliatory plea sent by Muskie last month to Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja...
Even so, nobody's hopes were very high about an early resolution of the crisis, if only because the internecine political warfare in Iran is still in full swing. No sooner had Prime Minister Raja'i sent a list of his Cabinet nominations to the Majlis last week than President Abolhassan Banisadr publicly complained that the nominations had not been approved by him, as required under the constitution. It was hardly the first time that the President and the Prime Minister had been at odds; Raja'i went so far as to lament that the President "does...