Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photo of Communists on trial. I was intrigued when an Iranian friend translated the poster behind the defendants. It reads: "England is worse than the U.S., but the Soviet Union is worse than both of them." Now tell me, how can England be worse than "the Great Satan"? A friend suggests that perhaps it is because Margaret Thatcher refuses to wear the veil...
...since 1975, invading the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and overturning a clique of hard-line Marxists who had murdered Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, a milder Marxist. Suicide truck bombers, presumably Islamic Shi'ite zealots who share Iranian Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's belief that the U.S. is "the Great Satan," blew up the American embassies in Lebanon and Kuwait, as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Marine peace-keeping force at the Beirut airport, a shocking attack that killed 241 U.S. servicemen...
...obstacle. Thus, killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon had an obvious goal: to drive them out by undermining support at home for their deployment abroad. What an Iranian terrorist would hope to accomplish by hitting a target in the U.S. is less clear; perhaps lashing out at "the Great Satan" would be motive enough...
According to Kuwaiti newspapers, the terrorist who drove into the U.S. compound was an Iraqi member of the banned Al Dawa party, a fundamentalist Muslim group with ties to Iran. For years, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has branded the U.S. as "the Great Satan." He is also angry with France for selling military equipment to Iraq and with Kuwait for supporting and underwriting Iraq in its three-year-old war against Iran. The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein immediately ordered missiles fired at five Iranian cities in retaliation...
...capital of the world, has been compared by one side or the other with all of these and more. The real Grenada is none of the above. The upheaval there was not, as it was in Iran, a xenophobic religious revolution that saw in every American an agent of Satan and a spy. Grenada was not, like Cuba or Nicaragua, a regional power that could project real force against its neighbors (though it would still be valuable to a great power as a staging point; in this respect it resembled, if anything, other useful dots on the map like...