Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...countries can build them using domestic industries and imported "dual-use" equipment -- high-tech items that have civilian as well as military applications. Last year, says Kenneth Timmerman, a specialist in Middle Eastern security issues, Germany sold a total of $5 billion worth of goods to Iran. Japan sold Tehran nearly $3 billion worth and the U.S. shipped almost $1 billion. Much of the trade involved "dual use" items...
...Iran's disastrous war with Iraq, nearly four years after Ayatullah Khomeini's death, a happier national spirit is struggling to emerge. The problem for outsiders is to square what sometimes appears to be a Persian lamb with a notably lion-like personality. The superficial prosperity of Tehran is illusory. Because of war and runaway population growth -- estimated at 3.6% a year, though that may be declining -- per capita economic output has shrunk about 40% since 1979. Many factories are running at only 40% to 50% of capacity...
...Tehran badly miscalculated its income from oil exports after the Gulf War, counting on an OPEC price hike that did not materialize. The oil industry has not regained its prewar export capacity, and its $16 billion a year in earnings helps prop up other failing state enterprises. The country is already $5 billion in arrears in its foreign-debt repayments, and is expected to be about $10 billion behind a year from...
...Tehran reaches out for Western trade and aid, Iranian society is feeling a steadily increasing internal pressure. Films and books, daring by local standards, that obliquely explore the effects of authoritarianism and war are enthralling the intelligentsia. For the rich, videotapes, cable television and satellite television dishes are opening fresh windows on the world. One noteworthy addition to the Iranian press is Golagha, a weekly satirical magazine that fires barbs at people in power -- though not at Rafsanjani. Editor Kiyoumars Saberi, a former Deputy Prime Minister, says his first issue in 1990 sold out all 40,000 copies in half...
...Tehran alternates respectability with terror and lies...