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As the fighting went on, Saddam Hussein tried to get new pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a...
How long will the war last? On that question at least, most Iraqis and Iranians agreed: a long time. When Khomeini ordered the invasion of Iraq, he assumed that Iraqi defenses would quickly crumble. He also assumed that Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, who form 55% of the...
Personal motives played an important part in Khomeini's decision to send his forces into Iraq. The Ayatullah, who was exiled to Iraq's Holy City of An Najaf after several arrests for anti-Shah activities, has never forgiven Saddam Hussein for trying to use him as a...
The decision to attack Iraq last week was taken personally by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Despite his advanced age (82) and frail health, the religious leader has relinquished none of the levers of power that he grasped upon his triumphal return to Tehran 3½ years ago. Under Iran's...
In addition, Saddam's aggressively secular, socialist regime has long been anathema to Khomeini's philosophy of government, which insists on the clergy's God-given right to rule. With its 55% Shi'ite majority and Shi'ite shrines at An Najaf and Karbala, Iraq...