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...cannot decide whom to hit, then it might consider what. Beirut airport is a hijacker haven, offering provisions, protection, reinforcements and television cameras. Yet bombing the airport would be a clumsy blow, an act of war against Lebanon that asks killing innocents. An air strike on Kharg Island, Iran's oil port in the Persian Gulf, is tempting to some hawks, but it would only martyr Khomeini and further inflame his followers...
...Carrier-based U.S. warplanes could, for instance, bomb an Iranian air base, an action that the Carter Administration considered taking if Iran had begun to kill the hostages seized at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Or the planes could hit the oil-refining and shipping facilities on Kharg Island; that would damage the Iranian economy but cause minimum loss of life...
...latest cease-fire lasted only a few hours. Shortly after Iran announced last week that it was suspending attacks on Iraqi cities and called upon the Baghdad government to reciprocate, Iraqi warplanes attacked two tankers hauling oil from Iran's Kharg Island and launched raids on Tehran and nine other Iranian cities, killing more than 300 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, Iran fired what appeared to be another surface-to-surface missile into the heart of Baghdad; more than 70 people were reported to have died in the blast...
...series of Iraqi air attacks on the capital's northern areas, mobbed airline offices in an effort to secure passage out of the country. At the same time, the "tanker war" in the Persian Gulf went on unabated as Iraq reportedly attacked the principal Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island. The purpose: to demonstrate to Tehran that it cannot win a war of attrition...
Sources in the Persian Gulf reported that Iraqi jet fighters resumed attacks on Iran's Kharg Island oil port, blowing up a supply ship and killing six of its crew...