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...that conjecture grew a new flurry of rumors that a secret deal was in the works: Iran would give up the hostages it has held for more than 350 days in exchange for much needed supplies and spare parts for the arsenal of U.S. weapons that the late Shah had purchased. Several scenarios, all of them denied by Carter Administration sources, were suggested. One was that there would be an Iraq-Iran armistice at the end of October, after which the hostages would be released as part of a settlement; the way would then be clear...
...monarchy of Saudi Arabia, defends itself against Iran's U.S.-made Phantom jets with the latest American equipment. As Iran chants its hatred of "the Great Satan America," its armed forces are surprising the world, thanks largely to the huge stockpiles of U.S. arms laid away by the late Shah and the skills of U.S.-trained Iranian pilots...
...common denominator of all these unholy alliances is the old Arabic proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The Saudi princes fear Khomeini's antimonarchist Islamic revolution, so they side with Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein wants to succeed the Shah as the principal power in the gulf, so he seeks to destroy what is left of the Shah's military machine and ingratiate himself with the conservative gulf states, who then might accept Iraqi hegemony. Syria's Assad feels threatened by Iraq so he allies himself with Iraq's enemy, Iran. Assad strings Gaddafi along on the mostly...
...Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign: "The King has made a big difference. He has made it possible for Saddam Hussein to create a new Middle East axis of Iraq-Saudi Arabia-Jordan to replace the old axis of Iran-Saudi Arabia-Egypt. That old one fell apart when the Shah collapsed and Anwar Sadat isolated himself by signing the Camp David treaty. That left a vacuum, which Saddam Hussein, with a lot of help from King Hussein, is now trying to fill...
...participants, and for many of the bystanders as well, this welter of perishable alliances and far more durable antagonisms is fraught with risks. King Hussein has complicated his already strained relations with the various Palestinian guerrilla organizations by siding with Iraq against Iran. The Palestinian groups saw the late Shah as their own enemy because he maintained relations with, and supplied oil to Israel; they back Khomeini because he cut off the oil shipments to Israel and turned the official Israeli mission building in Tehran over to the P.L.O...