Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as Saddam Hussein spoke, his air force was busy in the Persian Gulf battering the shipping that keeps Tehran's coffers filled with oil wealth. Baghdad claimed to have hit eleven tankers off the coast of Iran during the week. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, meanwhile, called all able-bodied male Iranians to combat, a signal that Tehran may be ready to launch a major offensive...
...center of the fuss was a French government report alleging that a Bourges munitions firm, Luchaire, sold some 500,000 artillery shells worth $120 million to Tehran between 1983 and 1986. The alleged deal violated a government embargo against military aid to Iran. The report, written by the army controller-general, claims that Mitterrand and Hernu knew of the illicit sales as early as 1984 and did nothing to stop them. The report charges that Mitterrand's Socialist Party may have taken kickbacks worth about $500,000 to look the other...
...months the Reagan Administration has protested China's role as one of Iran's main arms suppliers, while Beijing has denied the allegation. Last week Administration officials said they have evidence that new Chinese arms shipments, including sophisticated C-801 antiship missiles, have arrived in Tehran since early October. More than 100 new Silkworm missiles, the type that were used in recent attacks on Kuwaiti shipping, are also said to be destined for Iran as part of two arms deals, one for $1.3 billion in 1983 and another for $600 million early last year...
...ended at Altamont, when a knife-and-death climax to a Rolling Stones concert showed that the decade of love, peace and music had trouble, even with the music. The '70s limped along with an inner-directed malaise until Jan. 20, 1981, when the U.S. hostages lifted off from Tehran just as Ronald Reagan was taking office. The '80s, as befits their high-flying adrenaline, may have dissipated a few years early, sputtering to an end during the stock market's terrifying final hour of free fall on Monday. Although Wall Street may eventually stabilize, the tenor of the times...
...avenges a missile attack with the naval bombardment of two offshore Iranian oil- loading platforms. Tehran replies by launching yet another of its deadly Silkworms against Kuwait. -- Nakasone selects Noboru Takeshita, a consummate dealmaker little known to the rest of the world, as Japan' s new Prime Minister. -- Aquino strikes back at her opponents...