He was a well known Iranian television news personality who was killed in 1993 by a mine while covering a story about the Iran-Iraq conflict.

The guns are said to have played a bloody role in the Iran-Iraq conflict, where they devastated troop emplacements on both sides of the battle line.

But the Iran-Iraq conflict, the entire Persian Gulf, should be viewed in a perspective more attuned to the Middle East and Islamic history.

Their only role in the Iran-Iraq conflict is that of potential victims, and the threats faced are growing more numerous and complex.

Iran has had enough of war - the Iran-Iraq conflict lasted eight years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

These aircraft were used in the Iran-Iraq conflict and the 1991 Gulf War, in which at least one example was destroyed.

Mr. Lichtblau said crude oil supplies from the Persian Gulf had been "fully adequate" throughout the Iran-Iraq conflict.

Irony was not frequently encountered in the literature on the Iran-Iraq conflict.

Despite all these efforts to prevent or limit warfare, there was a substantial toll in human life, though not as great as that of the Iran-Iraq conflict.

The call for a meeting comes nearly one year after the council - without Iranian participation - adopted a resolution demanding an end to the Iran-Iraq conflict.