NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

Created: 4/29/1980

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National Intelligence Daily

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cia late item

iran

an assassination attempt wae made on iranianghotbzadeh this morning in kuwait.

'tha kuwaiti publio security chief ia

saving ghotbzadeh isospital, but it la unclear whethor ho waa hit by snots. kuwait has closed its borders, placed emergency police on alert, and sot up roadblocks in the capital. the kuwaiti government ia atatlng publicly that many ahots ware fired on ghotbzadeh'a motorcade, but that no one waa hurt.

SITUATION REPORT

IRAN

Third was an unconfirmed

Tehran radio report that the hostages have been dispersed to Qom, Tabriz, Yazd, Esfahan, and Najafabad.

esult of the abortive rescue mission, there reportedly have bean numerous arrests of Iraniansof cooperating with the US. Security seems to have deteriorated in Tehran over the last few days, with aavaral explosions in the city and some shooting around the Embassy.

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Economlc Developments

_ook, Iranhat Romania had agreed to buy

arrels per day over0 barrels per day

agreementriceer barrel.

|the Iranians may be using the Romanian

purchase to convince other buyers that there is demand

er barrel, whan in fact Iran facea significant

resistance.

is not interested in buying Iranian on acasking price. hae

nothing to offer Iran in barter and speculates that Eastern Europe in general cannot supply Iran with rthe typo and quality of manufactured goods it wants.

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