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For nearly two years, Iran and Iraq have been locked in an inconclusive war notable for its size and savagery. An estimated 200,000 soldiers from both sides have died, and 70,000 more have been taken prisoner. Yet even by those grim standards the charge was shocking: that Iran...
President Saddam Hussein, on Khomeini's fanatical Islamic Guards, who suicidally hurled themselves at the enemy in one human wave after another. In doing so, they upset the operations of the regular army. At least three Iranian brigades were destroyed in the early stages of the offensive; total Iranian...
Khomeini is anxious to continue his war against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and U.S. intelligence sources expect another attack on the strategic Iraqi city of Basra, located on the Persian Gulf in the heart of Iraq's oil-producing region, within the next few weeks. But for the...
As morale has dropped, discontent with the Khomeini regime has increased. So has violent opposition. Last month Massoud Rajavi, the Paris-based leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leading guerrilla organization opposed to Khomeini's theocratic rule, ordered his followers to attack Khomeini's "military-police apparatus...
Two weeks ago, in one of their more spectacular raids, guerrillas surrounded an Islamic Guard training base at Sardasht, in Kurdistan, and attacked it with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. More than 30 guards died in the assault. Yet another incident underlines the seriousness of what amounts to an undeclared civil...