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None of those problems, however, has quelled the desire of Khomeini and his fellow mullahs to export their Islamic revolution. Besides waging war on Iraq, Iran has chosen Saudi Arabia as a target for ideological subversion. As part of that campaign, Iran sent about 100,000 of its citizens to Saudi Arabia for this year's hadj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The agitators were instructed to encourage massive demonstrations by the pilgrims against the Saudi government. The plan failed as thousands of Saudi policemen kept the Iranians from causing trouble. Most of their fellow worshipers simply ignored the zealots. Some even hurled taunts at them for the bloody atrocities being carried out in Iran in the name of Allah. —By George Russell.
Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Raji Sanghabadi/New York City