... Referendum through the 1979 Revolution. Relations between the US and Iran became strained from this point forward, the Iranian Hostage Crisis and Iranian relations with Islamic Fundamentalist groups such as Hezbollah indicating the direction in which the newly founded Islamic Republic would head. In just years, Iran had ceased to be the "Island of stability in the troubled Middle East ... ...

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... per month of children under 5. Even US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright does not contest how great the human damage has been, but has said, "It's worth the price." Richard Garfield, an epidemiologist at Columbia University who analyzes the health consequences of economic embargoes, calculates that 225,000 Iraqi children under 5 have died since 1990 because of these policies-a figure based ... ...

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