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An official Iraqi spokesman listed the conditions as: Iranian respect for Iraqi sovereignty in the border area of Shatt - al - Arab water way; and the return of three islands of Abu Mousa, and Greater and Smaller Tumbs to Arab sovereignty.
In an interview in his hotel suit here Saturday night, Saadoun Hammadi provided one of the most comprehensive public accounts to date of what promoted Iraqi’s attack on Iran. He underscored not only Iraq’s concern over unhindered passage into the [Persian] Gulf, but also a feeling of Iraqi responsibility for removing the danger that Khomeini’s brand of Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Shiite Muslims of Iran could spread trouble to other countries in the region.
1 - Arab diplomats in Beirut said yesterday that Iraq, by using a strike force of 10,000 troops and canceling a border agreement with Iran, had accomplished the objectives of its current conflict and was preparing to repulse any Iranian counterattack.
2 - The Arab diplomats said Iraq had been planning the border attacks about months ago, mobilizing about 50,000 out of 200,000 troops but using only 10,000 so.
1 - Baghdad, April 10 - Iraq has deported 5,700 Iranians over the past few days and plans to expel as many as 20,000 in all within “One or Two Weeks”; a member of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council said today.
2 - Eyewitnesses report seeing as many as 500 Iranians, mostly simple people, confined in a single bus depot in Baghdad that is being used as one of many gathering points before they were trucked to a central collecting area and transported to the Iranian border. Among these deported people, toothless old men and women carrying little children were the only people who were allowed to carry the properties of their own or their families in one blanket or some thing like that.
3 - At that time (The time of signing Algeria Convention) it was Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the height of his powers who dictated terms to an exhausted Iraqi regime.
Then, as Haddad said today, “We signed in very different circumstances.”
Haddad warned the Iranian armed forces that “We will give them a lesson that they will never forget if serious fighting breaks out.
4 - He (Haddad) predicted that Iran will be shattered after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies – and perhaps even before - because of what he saw as a misguided policy towards “National Minorities” that would result in future “Independence”. That is while now they are demanding only autonomy.
5 - Iraq was providing “All Forms” of aid - presumably including money, guns and ammunition - to these minorities; but only to help them achieve autonomy; he said.
6 - But Haddad dismissed these (Military movements of Iraq), noting that “The Iranian Army is not even able to control the events inside Iran” and added that “The Iranians do not basically deserve a special alert and they do not have the capacity for receiving a special alert.
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