The World - News from Dec. 12, 1985
About half a million Iranian soldiers have deployed along the central and southern border with Iraq for what Western diplomats described as an imminent major offensive in their five-year-old war. The Baghdad-based diplomats said that Iraqi forces in three border provinces are on maximum alert. The reports on the deployments could not be independently verified. Iran and Iraq do not allow journalists into the war zone.
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