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Gulf War
Attacks Follow End
QfU.N. Mission
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By Richard M. Weintraub
Washington Post Foreign Service
.. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,
Sept. 16—Iraq said
its war planes
resumed strikes on Iranian targets
today, only hours after U.N. Sec-
retary
General
Javier
Perez
de
Cuellar left Baghdad at the end of
his four-day mission to the region.
Iran,
in turn, said
its forces had
attacked Iraqi naval targets in the
northern Persian Gulf.
It also an-
nounced that
it would hold a new
round of maneuvers in the Gulf of
Oman starting Thursday in the re-
gion where French mine sweepers
I
already have begun operations. Iran
•
also
said Kurdish
forces which
it
backs
were
holding
their
own
.
against counterattacks in northern
Iraq close to strategic
oil pipeline
facilities.
The
announcements
signaled
a
renewal of the sea and land attacks
that marked the weeks leading up
to Perez de Cuellar’s trip to Tehran
and
Baghdad,
during
which
he
The announcements
signaled a renewal
ofthe sea and land
attacks that marked
the weeks leading
up to Perez de
Cuellar’s trio.
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sought to find grounds for imple-
menting a Security Council resolu-
tion calling for a cease-fire in the
long-running gulf conflict.
A”
frsw
military
communique
.
said that its planes struck the east-
ern jetty of Iran’s Kharg Island oil
terminal at 3 a.m. and that a “large
naval target,” the Iraqi tferm for a
shipj was hit an hour later near tjhe
Iranian
coast.
Later
in
the
day,
i
Baghdad
reported
strikes
on
the
Iranian
oilfields
at
Karang
and
Baghi-Malek. The
, Iraqis also said
Iran had continued shelling the Iraai
city of Basra.
Iran, which previously ha§ con-
ducted naval maneuvers,
Said the
new round
would
include
speed-
boats equipped
"with
all
sorts
of
light, and medium-weight weapons”
andiwould involve regular
troops
and Revolutionary Guards.
'
The announcement said the ma-
neuvers were designed to train for
inflicting
blows
on
global
arro-
gance” of the western powers that
have amassed a large fleet of war-
ships in the Persian Gulf and in the
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Gullof Oman just outside the gulf.
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flying the American
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portedfa fe app oaching Kuwait’s
Ahmft
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oil tenhinal ,after_ a quiet
trip flirough the guff.
French
mine
sweepers
began
working Friday
in waters
off the
United Arab Emirates’ port of Fu-
jayrah, where two ships have struck
mines believed to have been laid by
the Iranians. British mine sweepers
also are believed to be close to the
area.
Western
diplomats
in
the
area
have said they expect a
full-scale
renewal
of
hostilities
now
that
Perez de Cuellar’s mission is com-
pleted. They also have expressed
fears of the conflict spilling over to
envelop
western
warships
that
might get caught up in the fighting
byaccident.
In its version of today’s military
action,
Tehran
radio
said
tonight
that
Iran’s
Air Force had struck
several Iraqi small naval craft in the
northern gulf and also had hit coast-
al artillery positions.
.
Most recent
air
activity
in
the
.
gulf conflict has involved the Iraqi
Air
Force,
since
Iran’s
air
wing,
mostly
supplied
by
the
United
States during the days of the late
shah, is grounded for lack of spare
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By Patrick E. Tyler
Washington Post Foreign Service
DUBAI, United Arab
Emirates,
Oct. 15—In its first successful mis-
sile strike on Kuwaiti territory, Iran
today blasted a 10-by-13-foot hole
in
a
U.S.-owned
supertanker
anchored off Kuwait’s main oil port,
setting the ship ablaze within sight
of four other tankers that had
ar-
rived Tuesday under U.S. Navy es-
cort.
U.S. officials in the region and in
Washington said they believed the
Iranian missile was a Chinese-made
Silkworm
fired
from
Iranian-con-
trolled territory on Iraq’s Faw Pen-
insula, about 50 miles to the north.
Kuwait
immediately
protested
the attack to the United Nations. A
Kuwaiti
Defense
Ministry
state-
ment
said, “Kuwait holds Iran
re-
sponsible for this act.”
The missile attack presented the
Reagan administration with a new
threat of escalation
in the Persian
Gulf, where U.S. forces last month
took
military
action
against
Iran
when a mine-laying vessel
threat-
ened another anchorage in the cen-
tral gulf used by U.S.-flag oil tank-
ers and warships.
In addition, the missile struck a
few
miles
from where
the
U.S.
Navy was preparing to moor a sec-
ond ocean-going barge rigged and
armed
as an
offshore
U.S.
"fort’’'
near Kuwait—which has not grant-
ed U.S. basing facilities for aircraft
or warships engaged in the protec-
tion of Kuwaiti shipping.
Three other long-range missiles,
two
of
them
identified
as
Silk-
worms, were
fired at Kuwaiti
ter-
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Attack
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tanker
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