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...Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border, assessing Soviet policy in the tumultuous Middle East. A few months later, he was on the other side of Iran, flying over the Persian Gulf in an Omani air force helicopter, watching Iranian warships steaming out of the port city of Bandar Abbas. When border tensions between Iraq and Iran erupted into a full-scale war four weeks ago, Talbott was back at his desk in Washington. But he found that his recent opportunity to "look at Iran from both sides," literally as well as in terms of East-West diplomacy...
...vessels, twelve of which are fighting ships. Seven specially fitted cargo ships are stationed at Diego Garcia and equipped with enough supplies to keep a 12,000-Marine amphibious brigade fighting for a month. Agreements have been made with Kenya, Oman and Somalia to start construction next year of port facilities and airfields that U.S. forces can use in a crisis...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Iraqi forces, after weeks of street fighting, captured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr, Iraq's military command said yesterday. Iran's military officials denied the claim, saying that "the enemy's attempts to advance into Khorramshahr were foiled...
Iraq first claimed Khorramshahr had fallen four days after the start of the war, only to encounter stiff resistence in the section of the city cut off from the port sector by the Karun River. Iraqi tanks then attacked and encircled the city...
...danger to neutral vessels in the area was underscored by an ugly incident at Khorramshahr. Five ships that had been tied up in port left their berths when the fighting intensified for a safer anchorage in the middle of the Shatt al Arab. The ships were fired upon by the Iranians, and some crewmen who jumped into the river to escape the burning ships were shot at in the water. Both sides claimed the other was responsible...