The World : Iraq Vows Missile Attacks

Iraq announced that it will begin firing long-range missiles at Iranian cities “because Iranian rulers have rejected the call for total peace.” Western diplomats in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, said the threat indicates that Iraq has decided to use Soviet-made SS-12 missiles for the first time in the 4 1/2-year-old war. So far, both Iran and Iraq are believed to have used the shorter-range Soviet-made Scud B missiles against each other’s cities. The SS-12 has a range of 500 miles.