Word: isfahan
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...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...
Iraq has counterattacked with devastating air raids on a dozen Iranian cities, including Tehran, Isfahan and the holy city of Qum. Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency reported last week that 212 civilians had been killed and more than 600 wounded in the raids. Iran retaliated by firing a long-range missile that struck a residential area of Baghdad, causing dozens of casualties...
...from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and Khanaqin, a town northeast of Baghdad...
Iraqi warplanes ranged over Iran yesterday in a series of raids on the cities of Isfahan, Kermanshah and Bushehr, an Iraqi military communique said...
...contributed to the sudden toughening of Iran's demands, just as a solution had seemed possible. Travelers leaving Iran last week reported that increasingly violent demonstrations have broken out against Ayatullah Khomeini and the ruling Muslim mullahs. There have been almost daily street protests in Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Isfahan and even the religious centers of Mashhad and Qum. One report estimated that 100 people had been killed in Tabriz when an anti-Khomeini crowd clashed with soldiers and revolutionary guards...