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...preparation for the long rainy season that begins this month, the Iraqis continued construction of an all-weather military road linking Khuzistan's provincial capital of Ahwaz with the outskirts of Basra on the Shatt al Arab estuary. The Iraqis were also proceeding toward one of their key tactical goals: cutting off most of the supply of oil from Khuzistan to Iran's heartland by severing pipelines and inflicting heavy damage on the huge refinery at Abadan, which will take years to rebuild. As part of this strategy, the Iraqis have repeatedly shelled Dezful, nexus for most...
...gasoline. The fall of Khorramshahr gave Iraqi President Saddam Hussein his first major victory. It also left the Iraqis in complete control of the Shatt al Arab and bolstered their military position as they continued assaults not only on Abadan but also on the other key Khuzistan cities of Ahwaz and Dezful. Iraq's First Deputy Prime Minister, Tana Yasin Ramadan, reportedly stated that Baghdad's objective was to take not only the main provincial cities but Khuzistan's oilfields as well. These would be held until the Iranians accepted the three conditions stated by Baghdad...
...tour of the combat zone, TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart observed a major road-building operation under way between a point on theBasra, to the Iraqi front at Ahwaz some 100 miles to the northeast. Reported Stewart: "Civilians man hundreds of giant road-building machines night and day in an effort to complete the two-lane high way before the rainy season next month. Beyond its immediate military value, the undertaking suggests that the Iraqis intend to settle in for a long stay and are perhaps even preparing a direct communications network between Iraq and a future Arabistan...
...Iraqis' superior firepower. As in the past, the Iraqis churned out premature claims of victory. But at week's end, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and military regulars were still repulsing Iraqi assaults aimed at capturing Dezful's oil-pumping station. To the south, 80 miles away at Ahwaz, Iranian artillery fire was keeping Iraqi troops on the outskirts of the provincial capital...
Iran not only foiled Iraqi advance into Khorramshahr but also pushed Iraqi artillery forces back from Ahwaz, the capital of Khuzistan province, Pars reported yesterday. The report also claimed that Iranian ground troops forced Iraqi infantry from the towns of Bostan and Susangerd...