Word: ahwaz
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...crewmen were killed. The Iraqi air force, whose active warplanes outnumber Iran's almost 10 to 1, also bombed and set ablaze the main Iranian oil-processing facility on Kharg Island and attacked what a military communique described as "economic and industrial targets" around the Iranian cities of Ahwaz and Isfahan...
...each side probably had about 100,000 troops poised for battle, and casualties were believed to be heavy. Throughout the week, the Iranians repeatedly launched "human wave" assaults in the face of heavy Iraqi resistance, only to fall back and press forward again. Residents of the Iranian city of Ahwaz, 100 miles from the fighting, reported that the local morgue, which can handle 2,000 bodies, was filled to capacity with war dead...
Sensing the mullahs' vulnerability, Banisadr followed up with the sensational charge that his political foes had twice plotted to murder him. One group of would-be assassins, he said, had planned to shoot him on Nov. 19 during a speech at Ahwaz; another band of plotters had intended to attack his car with rocket-launched grenades. By these allegations, Banisadr dramatically amplified his oft-repeated charge that the I.R.P. power brokers would stop at nothing to consolidate their position. Whether by force or otherwise, the mullahs clearly would have preferred to eliminate Banisadr as a political leader after sweeping...
...Iran each reported extraordinary success, but both were actually still bogged down in positions they have held for weeks. The Iraqis claimed that since the war began Sept. 22 they have killed 5,600 Iranian troops and downed 460 enemy aircraft. The Iranians said they had counterattacked at Ahwaz, Susangerd and other points along the 500-mile front. Iranian warplanes also struck at the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, where authorities have reopened a major oil pipeline to Turkey...
...Iraqis have been regularly falling back." Iranian sources said last week that most of the 1 million residents of the Khuzistan cities under Iraqi attack had reportedly fled either to central Iran or to nearby mountain refuges. One farfetched rumor had it that if the Iraqis captured Ahwaz, the Iranians would then open the gates of the 666-ft.-high dam on the Dez River near Dezful, thereby flooding much of the low-lying plains of Khuzistan...