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...problems, Iran under the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seems increasingly confident and active. Earlier this month Tehran persuaded its partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit oil production and thus push up the price. Last week it received two high-level envoys from Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most influential power broker in the Arab world, who called the alliance between the two countries "invulnerable." Now Iran is negotiating with France for the return of $1 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen by Paris after the Ayatullah came to power...
Despite the new vulnerability of the oil exports that finance Iran's war effort, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini remains determined to fight until he destroys the regime of Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. Although Iran has a slight edge in the land war, Iraq in recent weeks has stepped up air attacks against targets deep inside Iran. In a retaliatory move hours before the Sirri attack, Iran for the first time in a year fired a Soviet-made Scud missile at Baghdad. Iraq said the weapon caused no damage...
...supplies to the front rumble over roads running along levees, above the marshy terrain approaching Fao. The Iranians, using flat-bottomed boats with powerful outboard engines, roar across the blue-green waters of the gulf to deliver ammunition and reinforcements, who bring the latest , exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...scaled back imports for heavy industry, triggering a sharp recession and boosting unemployment. While staple foods are inexpensive under the government ration system, they are exorbitant on the black market, to which most Iranians are driven by the skimpy official allotments. War spending remains the top priority of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader. Since few countries will openly sell it military equipment, Tehran must use its shrinking energy income to buy weapons on the inflated international black market...
...charge was also leveled by Agca: during a visit to Iran in 1980, he said, he learned that Moscow was trying to pressure the government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to kill some or all of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran. "This time (Agca has) gone beyond his usual fantasies," fumed a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in Rome. "This is madness. It is provocation...