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The area surrounding the Persian Gulf is vital to the industrialized democracies of the world. More than 20% of the U.S.'s oil imports, 56% of Western Europe's and 68% of Japan's come from the gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of...
The 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...
Other disgruntled Iranian officers have reported similar killings by the Islamic Guards, who fight alongside the regular army but are under the command of the Islamic clergy. Last February, a group of guards allegedly captured about 15 Iraqi soldiers in Gilan-e Gharb, an Iranian border town. As the P.O.W.s...
Indeed, the Islamic clergy ignores and at times even encourages the mistreatment of Iraqi P.O.W.s. The massacres are seen as a way to boost Iraqi casualty figures and, perhaps more important, to instill ferocity and brutality in the ill-trained guards for their larger mission. Most of them serve only...
Meanwhile, urban guerrillas keep up their attacks. In Tehran alone, about 70 Islamic Guards a week are being killed by the Mujahedin. In one elaborate attack last week, the guerrillas staged a noisy motorcade for a pair of supposed newly weds. When Islamic Guards told the "wedding party" that it...