VOL. XXXI

NO.41

18-JULY-1988

The Middle East Situation

Iran has suffered further reverses on the ground and, more puzzlingly,announced the apparently unilateral withdrawal of its forces from two positionsinside Iraq, while the Iraqis, having now retaken almost all the territory heldby Iran, may have provided a glimpse of future tactics with a sortie across thefrontier to the Iranian town of Dehloran. In Lebanon the fall of the Bourj al-Barajnehcamp to Syrian-backed Palestinian dissidents means...