1. MY FRIEND SATAN.
- Author
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Rubin, Barry
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INTERNATIONAL relations , *DIPLOMACY ,IRANIAN politics & government, 1979-1997 ,IRANIAN foreign relations ,UNITED States foreign relations, 1981-1989 - Abstract
Reports that the pressures stemming from the Iran-Iraq war and the U.S. policy of isolating Islamic Iran have laid the basis for Iran's new diplomatic initiatives. Problems created by the nation's international isolation; Infighting in the battle to succeed Iran's leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; Desperation of Iran for arms, money, and international support it had previously denounced; Overtures of Iran to start diplomatic relation with the U.S.
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- 1986