Iraq Claims Planes Bombed Large Iranian Power Station
Iraqi warplanes flew 700 miles inside Iranian territory on Saturday to bomb the huge Neka power station in the north and also hit six “vital targets” in the south, Baghdad radio reported.
Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, confirmed that Iraqi jets bombed “an industrial center” in northern Iran. But it made no reference to the power station, described by the Iraqi radio as the biggest in the Middle East.
Iran said the northern air raid killed two workers and wounded 25 others.
The Iranian news agency said at least 114 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in five Iraqi air raids on 10 residential areas of Ahwaz, capital of the southern Iranian oil province of Khuzistan.
The state-run Baghdad radio, also monitored in Nicosia, said Iraqi rockets destroyed turbines and unspecified installations at the 1,960-megawatt Neka power station 120 miles northeast of Tehran on the Caspian Sea coast near the Soviet border.
Iraq also reported that an Iranian jet bombed residential areas of the northern Iraqi city of Zakho, killing a woman and three children and wounding two other people.
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