Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highway, some with gaping holes in their armor, others mere burned-out hulks. The ruined tanks are a powerful reminder of U.S. arms sales to Iran. Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz attributes his country's equipment losses largely to American shipments of TOW antitank and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Tehran...
Even more harmful than the missiles, Aziz asserts, was the political signal that their shipment sent. Says he: "The Iranians must have drawn a conclusion that the Americans are not opposed to the installation of an Islamic puppet government in southern Iraq." Baghdad fears that Tehran wants nothing less than to establish just such a republic, with Basra as its capital. In the shadow of that threat, the desperate and desolate city fights for its life...
Then came Iranscam and the revelation that two Israeli businessmen, joined by an Israeli antiterrorist adviser attached to the Prime Minister's office, may have instigated -- and certainly cooperated in -- the sale of U.S. weapons to the militant Islamic regime in Tehran. The renewed furor over the Pollard affair thus not only dragged Israel's most shocking security misfire back into the spotlight but dredged up the whole sorry security mess. The Pollard case, says founding MOSSAD Chief Isser Harel, ranks as "the worst-bungled affair in Israel's history...
According to White House memos printed in the Tower Commission report on the Iran-Contra arms deal, one purpose of an American visit to the Iranian capital of Tehran last May 25-28 was to deliver an intelligence briefing on Soviet military deployments near Iran...
...National Security Council memo presented a summary of a May 26 meeting at the Independence Hotel in Tehran where NSC staff member Howard Teicher "summarized the Soviet military posture and threat around Iran...