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Article: Unfinished business. (Iraq-Iran hostility)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1993
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MAYBE only the Middle East could produce such an improbable sequence of events. On May 25th Iranian military aircraft flew 100 kilometres (62 miles) inside Iraq to drop bombs on two alleged bases of Iranian dissidents. The following day Iran wrote to the United Nations underlining its respect for Iraq's "sovereignty and territorial integrity". Meanwhile Saddam Hussein massed troops in northern Iraq in apparent preparation, said the United States, for an attack on the "safe haven" set up there for the Iraqi Kurds. What is going on? The unfinished business of two wars, that's what. The eight-year Iran-Iraq war, which ended in 1988, did not put an end to the hostility between ...
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