Word: iraqi
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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Iraqi forces, after weeks of street fighting, captured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr, Iraq's military command said yesterday. Iran's military officials denied the claim, saying that "the enemy's attempts to advance into Khorramshahr were foiled...
...Iraqi flag was hoisted over Khorramshahr's government building to declare the return of the city to Arab rule forever," an Iraqi military communique, broadcast by Baghdad Radio, said yesterday, adding that bodies of the city's Iranian defenders were "left in the streets...
...Iranian military academy cadets continued to defend Khorramshahr from Iraqi tank and shelling attacks, Pars, the official Iranian news agency, reported. "Fierce house-to-house battles against the invading forces continue in parts of the city," Iran's Supreme Defense Council said yesterday...
Iraq also claimed the capture of the main bridge linking Khorramshahr with Abadan, nine miles to the south. "Abadan is as good as fallen," the Iraqi communique said...
Fortunately the U.S. did have some sway with the Saudis themselves and with their neighbors the Omanis. To its credit, the Administration worked quickly and quietly behind the scenes to dissuade Saudi Arabia and Oman from making their airfields available to Iraqi planes and thus exposing themselves to Iranian retaliation. But that accomplishment was offset by the Administration's inability to prevent King Hussein of Jordan, a longtime friend of the U.S., from throwing in his lot with Iraq...