The World - News from Sept. 23, 1988
Iranian naval units began minesweeping operations in the Persian Gulf as troops paraded in downtown Tehran marking the eighth anniversary of the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War. The official Islamic Republic News Agency said that the minesweeping operations, involving dozens of ships and aircraft and teams of frogmen, are being carried out as a good-will gesture after last month’s cease-fire. At least 10 ships, including a U.S. frigate and a Soviet tanker, struck Iranian-laid mines in the last 16 months of the war.
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