In 1987, Gangel covered the Iran-Iraq war as part of the Pentagon pool in the Persian Gulf.
The latest Iran-U.S. stare-down is also prompting some fresh safe-haven investment demand for gold.
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Such an investment was in violation of U.S. law under the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
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Mr Mousavi served as prime minister during the years of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980-1988.
But global reinsurers are staying away due to Western sanctions on Iran-related financial transactions.
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Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, says members of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hizbullah militia are teaching them.
In its handling of the Iran-Iraq War, the Reagan administration adopted a policy of dual containment.
As for Reagan and Clinton, despite Iran-Contra and impeachment, their second terms were mostly policy successes.
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When the Iran-Contra probe produced its report in 1987, Cheney's staff helped write the dissenting minority report.
Reagan stood up to the Soviets but flinched when Iran-backed Hezbollah bombed the marine barracks in Beirut.
In similar fashion, Ronald Reagan's second term ran aground when the Iran-Contra scandal exploded in late 1986.
Several commentators predict that Iran - already the subject of wide-ranging international sanctions - will face further isolation.
Gates was CIA's number two, and the Iran-Contra deal and the ensuing scandal could have been a career-ender.
Later, as a U.S. House member from Wyoming, Cheney was part of the congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra scandal.
During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran.
After the Iran-Iraq war, the Basij returned to its role as an internal security force to enforce Islamic morality.
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Figures show that there are around 10-20 million Azeris in Iran - around a fifth of the country's population.
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict, Dilip Hiro, Paladin Grafton Books, 1990.
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And he was the attorney for Iran-Contra figure Fawn Hall, Oliver North's secretary.
Khomeini made him Minister of the Revolutionary Guards to quash internal dissent and smuggle in weapons for the Iran-Iraq war.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers are battling U.S. troops, takes his spiritual direction from an ultra-conservative, Iran-based, Iraqi-exile cleric.
In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war, managers reportedly buried the wells, concerned that they might be targeted by Iranian forces.
Iran-U.S. tensions will continue to support the crude oil market, and also be somewhat supportive for gold on a safe-haven investment scenario.
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The United States recently designated NITC as a government of Iran-owned entity, and the European Union sanctioned the company on similar grounds.
Libby is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra affair, although he has maintained his innocence.
Many Iraqi soldiers never returned from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the first Gulf War in 1991, and the latest conflict.
Oliver North was found guilty in the investigations into the Iran-Contra affair.
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