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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1988

New Threat To Israel

HELEN DAVIS

Israel Correspondent

T

he universal expres-
sions of relief by the
international com-
munity over Iran's dramatic
decision to accept a ceasefire
in its 8-year-old Gulf War
with Iraq has been tempered,
not only by violations of the
not-yet-confirmed peace
agreement, but by the
cautious tone of senior Middle
East observers in Israel.
Many obstacles, they say,
litter the path leading to the
implementation of UN Secur-
ity Council resolution 598,
which calls for a ceasefire.
And many more obstacles re-
main before the two sides
reach a peace agreement.
Thnsions between Iran and
Iraq are still running high, as
evidenced by air strikes by
both sides last week, and the
fragile situation could easily
disintegrate into fresh
hostilities.
Nevertheless, Ayatollah
Khomeini has personally
endorsed the peace agree-
ment demanded by the UN
Security Council, and there is
a broad consensus that — for
the moment, at least — Iran
is serious about a ceasefire.
Over the past three months,
Iran has suffered a series of
major reversals on the bat-
tlefield. It has lost almost all
its territorial gains in Iraq,
experienced a critical shor-
tage of spare parts for its war
machine, and has come to the
conclusion that no quick vic-
tory was in sight.
Iran's need for a halt in the
hostilities, say the observers,
was heightened by a deepen-
ing financial crisis and
massive civilian dislocation
caused by the Iraqi missile at-
tacks on its cities (More than
a million Iranians fled their
homes after just one attack on
March 21.).
Perhaps most compelling of
all, however, was the failure of
Iran's leaders, in the midst of
the war, to solve the pressing
social and economic problems
besetting their country.
Iran's economic infrastruc-
ture has been largely destroy-
ed, leading to a high level of
unemployment and a wide-
spread fall in living
standards.
In addition, educational
facilities and medical services
have deteriorated drastically
since the revolution, while
the population has undergone
an unprecedented explosion
(from 37 million to 50 million
in the past 10 years).

According to the observers,
Iran's leaders feared that
growing disaffection and
widespread frustration at
their failure to either win the
war or solve the socio-
economic problems would
ultimately destroy the Islam-
ic revolution.
"Enthusiasm for the war
was simply not there any-
more," according to Professor
David Menashri, a specialist
in Iranian affairs at Tel Aviv
University. "The willingness
to sacrifice lives had
disappeared.
It is widely believed that
the Iranian decision to call a

"When the
tensions are
reduced, Iraq
could comfortably
contribute an
expeditionary
force of three or
four divisions to
join in a war
against Israel."

halt to the fighting was
engineered by the powerful
Speaker of the Iranian Parlia-
ment, Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, a moderate
pragmatist who was appoint-
ed commander-in-chief of the
Iranian Armed Forces just six
weeks ago.
Rafsanjani, who is believed
to have held intensive secret
contacts with Washington
over the past two months, is
credited with having persuad-
ed the ailing Ayatollah Kho-
meini — or perhaps other in-
fluential Iranian clerics — to
stop the war in order to save
the revolution.
Such a decision, say the
observers, is unlikely to have
been taken without the bless-
ing of leading Iranian relig-
ious figures, but the observers
are still not certain whether
the ceasefire agreement is a
temporary, tactical move or
the beginning of a process
that will lead to a full-blown
settlement with Iraq.
Nor are they certain
whether this apparent victory
for Rafsanjani represents the
ascendancy of the pragma-
tists over the radicals in
Teheran or whether the
pragmatists have simply been
"set up" in anticipation of the
real power struggle that will
follow in a post-Khomeini
Iran.
For the immediate future,
however, the emphasis in both