ABSTRACT
An analysis of Iranian/Shiite terror activity against France indicates at least two achievements for Iran. First, the terror campaign in 1983 against French targets achieved its main goal—the withdrawal of French forces from Lebanon and minimization of that country's influence in Lebanon. Second, the series of attacks perpetrated in 1986 by Fuad Ali Salah's network forced France to attempt to improve its ties with Iran. Terror activities against French targets and the kidnapping of French hostages stopped in 1988, with the end of the Iran-Iraq war, due to the aspiration of the regime in Teheran to improve its ties with Western countries in order to hasten Iran's rehabilitation. During Khomeini's regime in Iran, the latter took a hostile stand against Britain, due to its colonial policy in the past and its policy, tagging it as one of the enemies of the Islamic revolution.
