Iraq to Resume Attacks Against Iran

Iraq said that it would resume air and missile attacks against targets in Iran after a 15-day moratorium ended Sunday.

An armed forces spokesman read a statement over Baghdad television saying that Iran had attacked Iraqi territory and shelled several residential centers.

The attacks came, he said, despite Iraq’s moratorium on assaults on Iranian population centers, announced by President Saddam Hussein on June 14.

“The moratorium has ended, and the attacks will be resumed until a just and honorable peace is achieved according to President Saddam Hussein’s conditions,” the spokesman said.

In announcing the moratorium, Hussein had said that Iraq would halt attacks on Iran’s towns and cities for 15 days in response to appeals from the Iranian opposition and to give its rulers a chance to consider peace.

He said that attacks would resume if Iran continued to shell Iraqi towns, attacked Iraqi territory, rejected Baghdad’s peace initiative or massed troops for an attack.