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If the week's most significant event had been the strengthening of Saudi resolve, the inevitable corollary was that this would encourage the Iranians to strike harder elsewhere. The ayatullahs are simply not ready to give up until they have destroyed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Says a senior army officer in Tehran: "Military capabilities and options are being examined and re-examined every day. But from the clergy there is not even a hint of the possibility of peace."
—By William E. Smith.
Reported by Barry Hillenbrand / Jidda and Johanna McGeary / Washington