As
the Gulf War ended, the mullahs ruling Iran suddenly did an about-face in
a bid to take advantage of the prevailing circumstances. Under the pretext
of an "Islamic Revolution in Iraq," they sought to realize Khomeini's
dream of exporting medieval fundamentalism and seizing power in Iraq, and
at the same time destroy the Iranian Resistance's military wing, the National
Liberation Army of Iran. Frustrating the Khomeini regime's fantasies, the
NLA crushed all the attacks, from March 10 to April 2, by the regime's invading
forces. NLA units dealt the enemy a heavy military blow in a series of operations
code-named Pearl after the Morvarid mountains where they took place. The
regime's offensive was a fiasco, and backfired into an international scandal.
