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Article: Tehran Feels Political Toll Of Arms Deal
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 21, 1987
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Iran's revolutionary leadership has been embarrassed by
disclosures that it purchased U.S. arms through Israel and by media
reports that its religious hierarchy is locked in a bitter struggle
over who will succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, according to
Iranian and western sources.
These sources say that the revelations of Israeli involvement in
arms shipments and discussions about opening a political dialogue
with the West have astonished many officials and party operatives in
the Islamic-based Iranian power structure, which has fueled much of
its revolutionary fervor over the last eight years by rhetorically
lashing the twin "Satans," the United States and Israel.
Particularly damaged ...