Word: qasr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and Khanaqin, a town northeast of Baghdad...
...attack on the Prime Minister's office confirmed that the Mujahedin have penetrated the highest levels of the governing hierarchy, including its security apparatus. Indeed, late last week another bomb killed Iran's general revolutionary prosecutor, Hojjatoleslam Ali Qoddousi, in his office near Tehran's Qasr Prison. Not even Khomeini is safe. Last month the guerrillas left a powerful bomb in his house at Jamaran, a village on the northern outskirts of Tehran, with the fuse removed to make certain that the device would not explode. In an attached note, the Mujahedin warned Khomeini to surrender...
Despite the major advantages of surprise and superior numbers, the Iraqi forces had achieved no major victory in their invasion of Iran along a 500-mile front from the Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin in the north to the port of Khorramshahr in the south. The Iraqi proposal for a "unilateral ceasefire" appeared to have been merely a smokescreen to cover the fact that its forces were making limited progress toward their objectives. Baghdad's battle plan apparently called for the seizure of key cities in Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province, which has a large...
Throughout the week, the Iraqis poured reinforcements through the captured Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin into the crucial southern theater where Iran's major oil facilities are situated. In the welter of claim and counterclaim, for example, the Iraqi officers repeatedly said their forces were on the verge of capturing Khorramshahr. Tehran called that particular claim a "hallucination" and insisted instead that the Iraqis were being forced to withdraw, leaving behind 16 tanks and armored personnel carriers and abundant stocks of ammunition. The truth, as foreign observers were able to establish at the scene, appeared...
...capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab, and Umm Qasr, at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf. Since more than 50% of the West's oil supplies originate in the gulf area, this confrontation was a new worry for the U.S. and its allies...