IRAN CLAIMS FORCES PUSH DEEPER INTO IRAQI TERRITORY

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 11, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Iran said its forces pushed deeper into southern Iraq yesterday after an amphibious landing and two fierce battles. It also reported that 80 Iranian children were killed when an Iraqi missile hit a school.

Iraq said its helicopter gunships and Soviet-made fighter-bombers flew more than 300 combat missions against the boat-borne Iranian attackers.

In what appeared to be a major escalation of the more than six-year-old Persian Gulf war, the Iraqi government in Baghdad said it launched missiles and air raids on six Iranian cities to retaliate for Iranian shelling of ...

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