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From: sander@aecom.UUCP (Jeremy Sanders)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: A International subject
Message-ID: <687@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-May-84 16:47:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 16:47:16 1984
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> Thus trying to mediate in the Irak/Iran conflict is nearly impossible for
> us Westerners - we have no grounds for understanding the problem.

I don't know why you assume that the Iranians and Iraqis ('q' not 
'k') have some mysterious and unidentifiable reason for fighting; 
the motives of the current conflict are well known.  

Iraq attacked Iran to get some land that they wanted.  This  land
has long been a subject of dispute between the two countries, but 
until 1980, Iran had the territory and the strength to keep it so 
Iraq  didn't raise too much of a fuss.  In 1980 Iraq decided that
Iran's government was shaky and wouldn't be able to  resist  them
effectively and it was time to take the land back.  

This rather upset the Iranians who were able to stop  the  Iraqis
and  are  now  trying  to  give  them  their  come-upance  (sp?),
paritculary Pres.  Hussein.  


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					Jeremy Sanders
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