Iran turned back — Iraq
NZPA-Reuter Bahrain Iraq claims to have repulsed an Iranian ground offensive in the Hawizah marshes straddling the border between the two enemies in the 53-month-old Gulf war.
An Iraqi war communique said yesterday that the Iranians had pushed towards the western edges of the marshes, but “our forces countered and surrounded them, turning their offensive to a great failure.” Iraqi forces had killed “a large number of Iranian troops” and destroyed four
Iranian Chinook helicopters carrying soldiers, the communique said. Earlier, Iran said its forces had killed or wounded more than 500 Iraqi troops and taken 100 prisoners in the marshes along the southern front. Iranian forces overran an Iraqi command post, shot down two helicopters and destroyed 20 tanks, a military communique said. Meanwhile, a day-old United Nations-sponsored agreement to end attacks on civilian targets looked in jeopardy.
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Press, 14 March 1985, Page 6
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