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Reagan has insisted that a trade was not involved. "Let me say it was not my intent to do business with [Iran revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini to trade weapons for hostages, nor to undercut our policy of antiterrorism," the president said in a radio address...
With halting steps, the pallid but ever fierce Iranian leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86, last week stepped out of his long seclusion. He appeared at the Jamaran mosque outside Tehran, where he made a speech to mark the eighth anniversary of the Shah's overthrow...
Like almost everything else in Iran today, the reasons behind Seib's arrest remain a puzzle. The incident could have resulted from the continuing power struggle between the ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the designated successor to the aging, ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament. The journalists had been invited by Rafsanjani supporters, and Montazeri's men may have been trying to embarrass them by arresting the reporter...
Whatever their immediate motives, Lebanon's Shi'ite terrorists, who revere Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and want to turn Lebanon into a fundamentalist Muslim state, have embarked on an orgy of abductions since the beginning of the year. Of the 24 foreign captives now being held in Lebanon, eight are Americans, six Frenchmen and two West Germans. Recent victims include two Saudi Arabians, a sign that the terrorists may be trying to pressure the Saudis to moderate their support for Iraq in its six-year-old war with Iran...
...year-old gulf conflict dragged on, military observers noted a strategic anomaly. Despite clear advantages in weaponry and training, the Iraqis have thus far been unwilling to commit troops decisively on the front to dislodge the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's fanatical Revolutionary Guards. Said Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims: "The battle for Basra is becoming one of the largest battles of this lengthy...