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Article: The new Iran bows toward Moscow. (Hashemi Rafsanjani's visit to Soviet Union)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 3, 1989
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In a January letter, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini advised Mikhail Gorbachev to give up Communism and take up the Koran. That the late Khomeini's emerging successor, Hojatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivered no such hooters during his visit to Moscow last week is only one measure of the improving relations between Iran and the Soviet Union. Others are the economic pacts that the two governments concluded and strong hints that Soviet arms sales to Teheran are in the works.
Soviet-Iran ties began to mend when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in February. Now, Soviet firms are lining up to repair Iranian industry ruined during the eight-year war with Iraq. ...