The World - News from July 3, 1985
Iraq said its forces repelled an Iranian ground attack in a border area 95 miles northeast of Baghdad. “The Iranian force was wiped out before it could reach Iraqi positions,” a military spokesman said in a statement distributed by the Iraqi news agency. The spokesman denied Iran’s claim that Iranian forces penetrated elaborate fortifications and booby traps farther south in the east Tigris River sector. Iran and Iraq have been at war since September, 1980.
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