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Iraq, which began the war in September 1980 in an attempt to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which seemed quite vulnerable at the time, has belatedly realized that it can neither win nor afford the conflict. By threatening to destroy Iranian installations, including the Kharg Island oil terminal, Iraq hopes to push other gulf nations and oil-dependent Western countries into pressing Iran to negotiate a peace agreement...
...said the "crushing strikes" would continue as long as Iran persisted in its attacks. Iraqi officials also said they had launched floating mines in the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini in the western end of the gulf. They renewed their threat to destroy the huge Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island if Iran continued its blockade of Iraq's oil exports through the gulf. In addition, Iraq warned Japan that a large petrochemical complex under construction by a Japanese firm at Bandar-Khomeini would be bombed. Iran, in turn, has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which...
...Super Etendards, which can fly up to 733 m.p.h. at low altitudes and have a radius of 530 miles without refueling, are armed with the Exocets, the Iraqis will be better able to threaten Iran's oil exports. Though the missiles cannot knock out the installations at Kharg island, which are well defended and have already withstood Iraqi bombing, the Exocets could be used to discourage vulnerable tankers from calling at the Iranian port. Without ever firing a shot, Iraq could diminish Tehran's main flow of income, thus crippling Iran's ability to wage...
...worth of arms to Iraq, may soon supply it with Super Etendard jet fighters equipped with the kind of air-to-surface Exocet missiles that Argentina used against Britain in last year's Falklands war. A likely target for Saddam Hussein: Iran's major oil outlet at Kharg island in the Persian Gulf. The very idea provoked a quick Iranian counterthreat. If France or any other nation intervened in the war by supplying such weapons, or if Iraq seriously damaged the facilities at Kharg island, Majlis Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned, "Iran will destroy the security...
...while Iran be allowed to raise production to match that level. Iran, which is currently exporting only 1.5 million bbl. a day, is desperate to raise money for its continuing war with Iraq, another OPEC member. The threat of Iraqi air raids against the main Iranian shipping terminal at Kharg Island has helped cut Iran's exports by 1 million in the past month...