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Article: Can we coexist with Iran?
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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The Islamic Republic of Iran engages in many types of unacceptable behavior. According to the State Department's 1996 terrorism reports, Iran is the leading sponsor of terrorism in the world. Author Salman Rushdie, accused of heresy by Iran for his novel, The Satanic Verses, has a $2,000,000 bounty on his head. Iran's hit squads have killed more than 80 opposition figures in Europe. Worse news may be coming. In March, 1996, the Belgian police discovered hidden in a shipment of Iranian cucumbers, accompanied by two Iranian intelligence officials, a powerful mortar with shells capable of spreading murderous shrapnel in a half-milewide circle, possibly intended for terrorist ...