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By United Press International
WASHINGTON-Iran has more military equipment and people than Iraq, but it could lose an all-out war because its soldiers lack discipline and hardware is not in top shape, the military analysts said yesterday.
Among the points they consider is that the fighting could elicit a new sense
Most analysts, however, said they were not ready to predict who would win the conflict or to speculate on how intense it would become.
of determination in the Iranian military and could unify the country. A strong sense of national purpose could make up for hardware deficiencies.
On the other hand, some analysts
Analysis
think the spreading conflict could damage Iran severely if it continues that losses in major battles might lead to demoralization, which in turn could
open up opportunities for foreign-directed subversion.
In addition, there is a danger that separatist tendencies among ethnic groups in Iran could lead to a disintegration of the national government.
Iran, which has a population of 39 million compared to just 13 million for Iraq, has received sophisticated military equipment, including high performance aircraft such as F-4S, F-4Ss and F-14S, from the United States in the past.
However, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government took American hostages last November, the United
Iran suspends discussion on hostages
By United Press International
A false propaganda report yesterday by Baghdad radio, which said the hostages had been freed, effectively seizing a building that they would be freed, analysts said.
The Iranian Parliament yesterday declared an indefinite "freeze" on the issue of America's 52 hostages, dashing recent hopes for their release.
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said in New York that any action on the release of the hostages had been halted and Mr. Muskie said by the fighting between Iran and Iraq.
The hostages have been in captivity 325 days.
The radio report, monitored in Beirut, said, "the racist Farsi regime has uncontrollably released the 82 hostages on hostages on Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini."
Tehran radio denied the report as part of an "obvious and desperate campaign of lies."
Addressing "those who may be deceived by such cheap lies," it said, "The U.S. hostages are still in the grip of the Iranian revolution pending a decision by the Islamic Majlis (Iran's Parliament)."
Later, Tehran radio announced, "The media decided to freeze the issue of the package."
Analysts said the Iran-Iraq war could not have come at a worse time for the hostages. The recently-started Majlis debate, though it produced much anti-American rhetoric, was the first public discussion in Iran of a crisis that many Iranians blame for everything from high prices to continuing instability.
States imposed an embargo on spare parts to Iran. That raises the question of how many aircraft can fly and for how long.
With the issue in the open, moderates hoped the Moslem fundamentalists would realize that public opinion increasingly supports President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr's view that the hostage affair should be resolved quickly.
Expertis declined to speculate on the reasons for the false Baghdad report.
However, they did say it might be an attempt to make the Iranian regime look pro-American and therefore suspect in the eyes of radicals. They noted another Iraqi charge that Khomeini was a U.S. "stoole."
What the report did was dash a very slim chance that Iranian moderates could sell the war situation to funnelling voters. A number of Americans go home, experts said.
At the same time, Iraq has been well supplied by the Soviet Union with MIG-21 and MIG-23 fighters.
Extremists in Tehran now might see any gesture on the hostage issue as task for a terrorist group.
President Carter has declared that the United States will take a neutral stance in the conflict. As a result, most officials are restrained in discussing it.
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Iran possessed something of an edge over Iraq in hardware as of last October, and that much of it may be in dispair because of a lack of spare parts and maintenance.
Iraian claims to have about 447 combat aircraft to 339 for Iraq. Iran possesses 1,985 tanks to 1,900 for Iraq. Although both field hundred of armed infantry fighting vehicles, Iraq is superior in this category. Iran has more than 1,000 artillery pieces; Iraq has more than 800.
Pentagon spokesman Thomas Ross said no American military forces had been put on alert, even though the conflict could threaten to halt oil supplies from the Persian Gulf to the West.
The United States now has two ships in the Gulf, the LaSalle, flagship of the U.S. Middle East Force, and the frigate Bogey. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its ac-commissioning ships are about 1,000 miles away.
In addition, 1,800 U.S. Marines are
aberd four amphibious ships in the
Atlantic.
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THE GRADUATE BUSINESS COUNCIL meets at 9 a.m. in the conference room of the Satellite Union. All business students are invited to attend.
The SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS will meet from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in room 323 Malot Hall.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM at the ECM building will feature a lecture by Rose Greaves, professor of history, at 11:45 a.m. She will speak on "The Persian Gulf Revisited." Bring a sack lunch.
TONIGHT
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR will meet at 7 p.m. at the ECM building to discuss readings on non-violence, Cornell and Dorothy Dav, and Danilo Dolci.
The KU SAILING CLUB meets at 7 p.m. in Kansas Union Parlors A and B.
The SIERRA CLUB will not meet this evening as announced yesterday in this column. Sierra Club will meet Oct. 8 and Nov. 12.
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A RAPE PREVENTION AND LEGAL RIGHTS SEMINAR sponsored by Phi Delta Sigma Social Service Fraternity and the KU Police Department will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in Lewis Hall.
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Contemporary issues of sex as pleasure, and religion and idealism will be discussed during the LIFE ISSUE NETWORK ALITY at 7 p.m. in the ECM building.
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