Word: khorramshahr
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Nonetheless, one-third of Iran's imports still travel through Soviet territory and, with its biggest port, Khorramshahr, closed, Iran is dependent on Soviet rail transport. The Soviets could retaliate by stemming those imports, courting the Mujahedin guerrillas or increasing their already considerable supply of sophisticated arms to Iraq. Soviet KGB agents from nearby Soviet Azerbaijan have reportedly infiltrated Iran to replace the agents who were arrested...
...Iranian government has inflated its already extravagant demands ever since its army recaptured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces two weeks ago, causing some Iraqi soldiers to attempt to swim across the Shatt al Arab estuary to Iraqi territory. Iran is insisting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, payment of enormous reparations by Iraq or its Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations...
...this code signal was broadcast over walkie-talkie radios early last week, some 65,000 Iranian troops and militia launched the most ambitious counterattack of the 20-month border war between Iran and Iraq. The prize: the Iranian port of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqis had captured soon after crossing to the Iranian side of the Shatt al Arab at the start...
...wars-one active, the other sporadic and threatening-preoccupied the Middle East last week. On the Persian Gulf, Iran appeared to be gaining a crucial edge in its 19-month-long war with Iraq. A fierce battle raged for control of Khorramshahr, the strategic Iranian port city captured by Iraq shortly after the fighting began in September 1980. Some 800 miles to the west, Israeli fighter-bombers attacked a cluster of Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in central and southern Lebanon, and the P.L.O. responded by sending volleys of artillery into northern Israel. In Jerusalem, one government leader after another declared...
...chunk of the province, Iranian forces had launched a second offensive that they hoped would rout the Iraqis from Iranian territory, which had been invaded in September 1980. Hundreds of Iranian commandos were dropped by helicopter behind Iraqi artillery lines in an attempt to recapture the Iranian city of Khorramshahr on the strategic Shatt al Arab waterway. Throughout the week, bloody battles raged near the city, where Iraq's armed forces had instructions to fight to the last man. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. At week's end Iran claimed to have won a major victory as Iraq...