THE IMPLICATIONS OF AN IRANIAN VICTORY

PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IRAQI FORCES ARE WITHDRAWING from all remaining pockets of Iranian territory in order to deny Iran any excuse for prolonging, the 20-month long Gulf war. The humiliating admission of defeat by Baghdad leaves the combatants back in the positions they held in 1980. What happens next? In this issue, we look at the strategic and military implications of the Iranian victory. In the next issue we will examine the political and economic fall-out.