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Issue 340 - 28 Jun 1988
Throughout the long course of the Gulf war, now in its eighth year, outside observers have claimed from time to time to have detected a readiness on the part of Iran to end the conflict on terms other than the fulfilment of its uncompromising and allegedly unalterable conditions; conditions which only an outright victory could obtain. Variously citing a diverse range of factors, including Iranian economic incapacity, shortages or deficiencies of vital armaments and military equipment, internal political opposition pressures or simply national war weariness, such forecasts have never yet been borne out by events.

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