Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranian offensive, the fourth launched by Tehran since last July, was apparently aimed at the Iraqi city of Al Amarah. Seizure of the town would enable Iran to intercept supply and troop movements between Baghdad, the capital, and the southern port city of Basra. By midweek, Tehran Radio was claiming that advancing forces had "liberated" 120 sq. mi. of Iranian territory from Iraqi forces since the attack began. An Iraqi military spokesman was contending that the attackers did not gain "one inch of Iraqi territory...
...Egyptian relations and scuttle Carter Administration Middle East peace efforts in the late 1970s, the KGB circulated a number of ingenious forgeries, some on U.S. State Department stationery, suggesting that U.S. officials had serious doubts about Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. One phony dispatch from the U.S. embassy in Tehran spelled out Iranian-Saudi plans to overthrow Sadat with American complicity. Soviet agents also distributed inflammatory "letters" from U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Hermann Eilts and a fictitious press interview in which then Vice President Walter Mondale expressed concern about Sadat's leadership...
...except for citizens of the two countries, who continue to suffer from the bloodletting that began when Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980. Iranian leaders still boast that they will sweep across to Iraq's western frontiers, eventually overthrowing the regime of President Saddam Hussein. But so far, Tehran has managed to capture only a thin sliver of Iraqi border territory as a result of its offensive last summer, at a cost of an estimated 30,000 casualties...
...buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later, Aziz and Rajavi issued a joint communiqué calling for a halt to hostilities and a negotiated settlement...
Although it was highly unusual for Aziz to deal with Rajavi, Tehran had more reason to be concerned about Aziz's meetings in Paris with Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali and with French officials. Egypt has provided Iraq with ammunition and spare parts. In response, the Iraqi regime, a hard-line Arab government that once advocated the ostracism of Egypt after it signed a peace treaty with Israel, has become an outspoken proponent of Egypt's return to the Arab fold. After meeting with Ghali, Aziz said that Baghdad was committed to the "total...