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...conflict in the Persian Gulf is sometimes called the tanker war, and last week's skirmishes showed why. In a nighttime raid, Iraqi warplanes bombed several Iranian tankers near Kharg Island. A day later an Iranian gunboat hurled nearly a score of rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S.-operated Liberian tanker off the Kuwaiti coast; no casualties were reported. The attacks followed a bout of muscle flexing between the U.S. and Iran. Soon after Iran tested a Chinese-made Silkworm missile at the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy held its own drill, launching planes from a carrier...
...London-based Lloyd's shipping underwriters said the 101,977-ton Felicity was bound for Iran's Kharg Island terminal to take a shipment of crude oil when it was attacked and set on fire...
...Felicity is one of about 16 tankers chartered by Iran to ferry oil from Kharg to a terminal at Larak island in the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz...
Last year Iran moved its main oil-shipping operations from Kharg Island, which is only 125 miles from Iraq, to Sirri, 350 miles farther down the gulf. The switch helped keep tankers out of range of Iraq's air force. But either by using in-flight refueling, as some Western military analysts conjectured, or airfields in nearby Arab states, as the Iranians claimed, Iraq proved that it has the ability to reach Sirri. Iran, meanwhile, is trying to move its oil- loading operations to Larak Island, another 125 miles farther down the gulf and closer to the protection of Iranian...
...clear military advantage." But behind the official optimism lies a palpable weariness with a war that has already taken the lives of perhaps 200,000 Iraqis and Iranians. Last week sporadic shelling continued along the border, and shipping sources said Iraqi planes had set fires at Iran's Kharg Island oil facility. Meanwhile, the latest peace effort by leaders of several Islamic nations collapsed after Iran reiterated its demand that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein be ousted. Iraq wants peace, but not at that price...