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Article: Keeping their fingers crossed on Iran-Iraq war
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 9, 1987
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Looming larger than all the domestic political damage,
self-inflicted on the Reagan administration by the dealings with
Iran, is the danger that the United States may have briefly tilted
just far enough to improve Ayatollah Khomeini's chances of seizing
the Iraqi port city of Basra.
Fearful that a successful occupation of Basra by Iran's
fundamentalist legions could be the beginning of a gradual but
irreversible process of revolutionary change in the region, State
Department officials and Pentagon experts are keeping their fingers
crossed as they watch with sharply focused satellite photography the
shifting tides of battle around the beleaguered city.
The most recent Iranian offensive ...