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The center of that chain is represented by the Islamic socialist guerrillas known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Through the streets of Tehran they streamed, the wounded and the widowed, old men and young in the blood-red headbands of the suicide squads, a quarter of a million in all. "Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to France! Death to Russia!" they chanted in unison as Ahmed...
Five years after Khomeini's return from his Parisian exile to seize power in his homeland, his government of once inexperienced revolutionaries seems firmly in control. The ruling mullahs (religious scholars) and some 100,000 Islamic Guards who protect them have, to be sure, lost some of their popularity...
For the moment, however, authorities may be less unsettled by such external threats than by their own internal divisions. The Ayatullah has established 20 different agencies for intelligence and security. All of them jockey for position by twisting Khomeini's proclamations, as well as the Koran, to their own...
What were Saddam-Hossein's reasons for attacking Iran? Certainly, the Iraqi president hoped to take advantage of the political turmoil in Iran and the chaotic state of the Iranian army--most of its ablest generals were purged after the Shah's ouster--to settle an old border dispute. But...