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- From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
- Subject: Re: Iran-Iraq war
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144322.383@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:43:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.004941.13631@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> <1992Nov12.094220.6352@fmg.bt.co.uk> <BxnqB2.zy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 13 Nov 92 13:47:25 GMT
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- In article <BxnqB2.zy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala) writes:
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- > ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani) writes:
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- > >In article <1992Nov11.004941.13631@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> javad@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Agha Javad) writes:
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- > >> If the IRI leadership had been smart, they would have invited those military
- > >> men who were not strong supporters of Shah, and were willing to work for
- > >> their COUNTRY to continue to serve, while firing only the heads who were
- > >> unquestionable loyalists. They would have also taken a peaceful stance
- > >> towards their neighbors and towards the rest of the world by not blabbing
- > >> about exporting their revolution
-
- > >Just for the record. I vividly remember that in the few weeks before
- > >the Iraqis invaded Iran, Jalal-od-din Farsi (the then darling of the
- > >Islamic Republic Party and their grooming presidential election
- > >candidtae) was repeatedly ranting over the Tehran radio on the "duty"
- > >of the Islamic Republic to "liberate" the Iraqi "moslems" from their
- > >"infidel" rulers. Fore anybody carefully listening to these, it was
- > >obvious that that was a receipe for war and that we were heading
- > >towards it. Then followed some border skirmishes and infiltrations by
- > >paasdaars - and then the all-out INVASION and WAR.
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-
- > This is also Iraqis justification for invading Iran.
-
- I hope that you are not implying that I am spreading Iraqi propoganda.
- I only related a personal memory, and that at the time I did see the
- prospect of war. But of course, none of these provocations could EVER
- justify the Iraqi invasion. I hope the difference is clear.
-
- -hossein
-