The World - News from July 21, 1985
Iraq said its warships shelled an Iranian oilfield, setting ablaze four wells, a pumping station and a storage tank. The offshore Cyrus Field is connected to Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island by a 45-mile pipeline, shipping sources said. They added that the field, in an Iraqi-proclaimed war zone in the northeast of the Persian Gulf, is old, and they doubt that it is fully operational.
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