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...between those Persian Gulf neighbors continues to take an alarming toll of civilians. In the wake of a new Iranian offensive into Iraq's mountainous northwestern region, the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched Soviet-made FROG missiles at three Iranian cities in the southern province of Khuzistan. In addition, Iraq bombed several towns in northwestern Iran with Soviet-made fighters and bombers. Civilian casualties were estimated to be in the hundreds. Tehran also charged that Iraq had resorted to chemical warfare for the second time in a month, lobbing artillery shells filled with poison gas at Iranian...
Last Monday evening thousands of Islamic Guards and volunteer troops, backed by several regular army divisions, swept across a flat plain toward Iraqi positions near the border of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. It was the beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...
Saddam has lost almost all the territory he won in the fall of 1980, when he started the war by invading Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Now he is counting on his troops to show their fighting spirit when they defend their own land. So far they have done so, holding the Iranians to small victories at a huge cost in lives. But the war of attrition may only be beginning, and the will to win may ebb and flow before the fighting is over. -By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Barry Kalb/Baghdad and Raji Samghabadi/New York
...allegation surfaced last week in Paris, where members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a Muslim socialist party opposed to the Khomeini regime, released photos purporting to be of one such incident. The massacre, said to have occurred last January in Bostan, a town in the southwestern province of Khuzistan, was photographed by Iranian officers sympathetic to the Mujahedin. According to the officers, Islamic Guards assembled a group of Iraqi prisoners in front of pictures of Khomeini and ordered them to chant slogans praising the Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their...
...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 and the United Arab Emirates). Those states and Saudi...