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 TURN 43  - Year 1988

Historical events:

-Fall of some communist governments in Africa

-Nagorno-Karabakh War

-Bougainville Civil War

-Coup in Yemen and civil conflict

Information for Players:

Pahlavi Iran: The democratic elections bring a climate of satisfaction to the majority of people who had hitherto rejected the Pahlavi dynasty, yet the shah still governs almost everything by the moderating power, and many believe that there was fraud in the elections and that the shah made the liberal party win so he could continue to modernize the country, agreements with the working class are nevertheless made, the clergy are divided between those who support the shah and the more traditional still faithful to the ideology of Khomeini who are the majority of the shia traditionalist party while other shiite parties have less traditionalistic and more secular attitudes. The iranian army finally captures the shiite cities for the shiites of Karbala and Najaf, giving Iran the advantage in war.

Iraq: Iraq feels threatened, after losing the two holy shiite cities, Saddam launches a series of bombings against Iranian cities, attacks with chemical weapons are made, Saddam says he is only getting revenge for everything the iranians have caused. The conflict against the kurds ends up stopping as the kurds after having been violently repressed are forced to surrender.

Lebanon: Is official now, a decree is passed in parliament to expel the french and israeli forces from Lebanon, Lebanon has rightists and arab socialists mixed in politics, but both want to oust foreign troops from the country if they refuse the lebanese army will do so.

Syria: Hafez al-Assad makes a statement and says that the syrian army is very well armed and trained and that anyone who dares to attack Syria will suffer.

East Germany: Many demonstrations begin to appear in the country, many even popular revolts appear on all sides, the berlin wall is constantly vandalized and has some parts that are attacked, guards and demonstrators clash, many eastern germans flee to the western side in half of the confusions, many complain and ask for the immediate fall of the communist government, demonstrations take place everywhere in the country, especially in Berlin.

Papua New Guinea: The communist government of the country already hostile and unrelated to most of the neighboring countries refuses the vietnamese influence and in a symbolic gesture expels all the ships of the Vietnam of the country and says that it will bomb and explode violently if the Vietnam doesn't leave the country in peace. Papua New Guinea has been suffering many social problems and poverty is in large part in the country, the soviets only defend the communist government in the gully. However, a conflict in the Bougainville worsens the whole situation.

East Timor: War has being declared against Indonesia once again, the soviets attack together and bombard with the defensive system the ships and planes of Indonesia that explode.

Pakistan: Attacks Kashmir.

Yemen: A coup happened and an arab socialist government was installed again, the Ali Saleh group begin to fight against the new coup government with possible international support.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Afghanistan: The war is still intense. The soviets begin to think about a withdrawal, in which case the afghan army would fight alone.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Somalia: The war begins.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Sudan: The Sudan loses soviet support and has become an easy target for the egyptians.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Argentina and UK: A truce may possibly be made.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">USA Diplomacy

- USA  tired of the conflict in Falklands says that it's enough, the USA says that the war in the Falklands islands militarily finished, it forces the british to make a referendum and to negotiate with the Argentina until arriving at a conclusion, since Argentina can't win the islands militarily.

-USA tell Mexico to stop messing up.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-Is giving full support to Iran and to mujahideens in Afghanistan.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USA is supporting Ethiopia.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USA is supporting Egypt.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USA is giving weapons to Indonesia.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USA improves military relations with the AC and calls for them to cease to be a threat to stability in the region.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Soviet Diplomacy

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-Internal conflicts are worsening, now with Azerbaijan and Armenia at war and independence and separatist movements all over the country, there are few who consider themselves soviet.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-Says for France to leave the Middle East, or if it prefers to continue, it will not touch even a finger in Syria or Iraq, the USSR also begins to influence the leftists and socialists parties and movements in Lebanon.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-Relations with Sudan deteriorate, soviets stop supporting the Sudan and disagreed with the country's dictator.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-Continues to fight in Afghanistan, but Gorbachev raises the possibility of leaving the war, leaving only the afghan army fighting.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-Gorbachev begins to open the USSR gradually, however, refuses to adopt market socialism and says that this is not real socialism and will not be adopted.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USSR is giving support to Somalia.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USSR is supporting East Timor again, the soviet military bases in the country are already attacking.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-USSR is supporting the new arab socialist yemenite government.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">-The conflicts between armenians and azerbaijani begin and the USSR begins to support the azerbaijani while asking for the conflict to end soon.