The World - News from Nov. 19, 1985
Iran said its warplanes hit an industrial area and troop concentrations in Iraq’s Misan province, inflicting “considerable casualties and losses.” It denied that one of its F-5 jet fighters was shot down in the raid, as Iraq has claimed. Iraq said its planes attacked Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf and hit a “large naval target”--a term used by Baghdad for a tanker. There was no independent confirmation of either side’s reports.
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