Iran takes town
NZPA-Reuter, Teheran Iran’s forces recaptured the war-ravaged Iranian border town of Mehran from Iraqi troops after a two-day offensive through surrounding desert, the official news agency, Irna reports. Both sides had earlier reported heavy fighting in the area, 170 km southeast of Bagdad. Iraqi troops had held Mehran for six weeks after capturing it on May 17 for the second time in the six-year-old war. The move into Mehran was Iraq’s first advance into Iran since 1982. Analysts said the town was important to Teheran because of Iraqi suggestions that it was comparable to Iran’s capture of part of Iraq’s southern Faw peninsula in February.
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