[lbo-talk] Khomeni & Israel

[Joel Schalit]

Yeah - definitely. Israel was happy to do anything it could to keep  
Iran's front with Iraq hot at the time. Israel bore a grudge with  
Iraq for deploying divisions on the Syrian front during the 1973 War,  
and had other long-standing issues with it which made this an ideal  
opportunity, so to speak. Nevertheless, the Israelis failed to make  
this dependency relationship quash a growing relationship of  
antagonism with the Iranians during the 1980s - witness Hezbollah.

On May 3, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> [this is rather amazing - I had no idea! - I presume this was to  
> annoy Iraq?]
>
> <http://www.juancole.com/>
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> But, by the way, Khomeini sold oil to Israel, and Israel sold him  
> weapons and spare parts, and put the Reagan administration up to  
> doing the same thing. You will note that when Khomeini originally  
> made the statement about the occupation regime over Jerusalem  
> vanishing from the page of time, that was not front page news. In  
> fact, secret Israeli arms shipments were arriving in Tehran as  
> Khomeini was speaking. So whatever is going on now is not about the  
> rhetoric, is it?
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