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...last voyage of the Antigoni...
...Greek freighter Antigoni was steaming through the Persian Gulf toward the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini when members of the crew saw a silver streak glinting above the waves. The next instant, a missile slammed into the ship's stern about 5 ft. above the water line, and the 15 crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo...
Iraq, which took responsibility for the attack, also declared that six other "enemy" craft were hit. Iran charged that the Antigoni was destroyed by a French-manufactured Exocet missile, the same weapon used by Argentina with devastating effect against British ships during the 1982 Falklands war. That additional charge remains unproved, but there can be no doubt that the sinking of the Antigoni represented a dangerous escalation in the three-year war between Iran and Iraq for control of the northern tip of the gulf...
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