The World - News from April 28, 1985
Iraqi warplanes bombed “a very large naval target,” a term usually referring to an oil tanker, near Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal, and Iraqi troops destroyed seven boats carrying Iranian soldiers in marshlands along their border, the Iraqi military said. Iran had no official comment on the Iraqi reports. The attack near Kharg Island was the fourth reported by Iraq in as many days and the 66th such attack claimed this year.
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