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2005-01-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Jazeera office in Iran may be closed down

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Posted by Steve White 2005-01-17 1:05:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Khuzestan (province number 15 on this map) is a running sore for Iran and Iraq. It was locals from this area who, with Saddam's sponsorship, staged the Iranian Embassy Seige in London in 1980:

"At 11.30 a.m. on 30 April 1980 a six-man terrorist team calling itself the Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan (DRMLA), sponsored by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, captured the building in Knightsbridge, central London. Initially it emerged they wanted autonomy for an oil-rich region in southern Iran known as Khuzestan; later they demanded the release of 91 of their comrades held in Ayatollah Khomeini's gaols. Only after the incident was over did it emerge that Iraq had trained and armed the gunmen to embarrass Iran, and it would become a prelude to the Iran-Iraq war."

Worth keeping an eye on. I'm not surprised the Mullahs are tetchy about al Jizzwad raising the issue.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-17 6:35:35 AM|| 2005-01-17 6:35:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I didn't realize the London Iranian embassy seige was so long ago. The world has been living a long time with mideast terrorism. Most of the shit that happens in this world can be traced to mideast terrorists of one stripe or another.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-17 10:44:52 AM|| 2005-01-17 10:44:52 AM|| Front Page Top