Iraq ‘destroys two enemy naval targets’
NZPA-Reuter Beirut Iraq, which said that it had smashed an Iranian invasion force on the border east of Bagdad, announced yesterday that it had destroyed two “enemy naval targets” near Iran’s Persian Gulf oil export terminal on Kharg Island. A military spokesman quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency said that the Iraqi Navy destroyed the targets five miles south-east of Kharg. The spokesman did not give any more details about the targets. Iraq made a similar claim five days ago.
but gave no other details and the incident was not confirmed by Iran. The Iraqi spokesman said the action confirmed the Iraqi Navy's ability to “protect Iraqi territorial waters and execute the warnings issued ... to the enemy and all owners of oil tankers not to approach Kharg Island and other Iranian shores.” Iraq declared a military exclusion zone at the head of the Gulf on August 12 after attacks on two merchant vessels. Iraqi planes were later reported to have attacked shipping in the Gulf on September 10 and 11.
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