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...fifth time in three weeks, tens of thousands of Iranian soldiers launched a furious offensive against Iraqi forces entrenched near the Shatt al Arab waterway. Many of the Iranian troops, according to Iraqi officials, went into battle carrying a plastic key that the ayatullahs had told them was the key to paradise. Said one Iranian officer: "In fact, it is the key to hell...
...front in a small military convoy of Land Rovers. The mist rising from the Shatt al Arab waterway is steamy, the sky so luminous that it seems ready to burst into flame. There was shelling during the night from the Iranian artillery five miles away, but people seem unperturbed as they open their shops, till their fields and move cargoes along the waterway in long, canoe-shaped dhows...
...attacks on the enemy of Islam, have been forced to cross over into Iraq to save the oppressed Iraqi people. Rise up and install the Islamic government that you want!" So declared Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week as he launched his army along the Shatt al Arab waterway in a huge invasion of Iraq. For the first time in the 22 months since Iraq initially attacked Iran, heavy fighting was taking place on Iraqi territory. Khomeini's objective was not just the overthrow of his bitter enemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but the creation of an Iraqi Islamic...
...escorting Western visitors around Baghdad to convince them that he enjoys the full support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions in the gulf sheikdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman...
...Iran-Iraq War: Until June 29, we were inside Iranian territory. [Iraq invaded Iran on Sept. 22, 1980, claiming full sovereignty over the Shatt al Arab waterway.] As we declared, our army pulled back to the international border. The Iranians have not responded to our peaceful attempts. We had hoped that Iran would put into effect a cease-fire and enter into negotiations. The Iranian regime faces two choices: either its troops remain where they are, engaging in artillery exchanges, or they try to penetrate our territory. If they attack, they will fail. They will not be capable of imposing...