The World - News from Feb. 29, 1988
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Iranian warplanes, usually crippled by shortages of spare parts, bombed three key economic targets in Iraq, Tehran Radio reported. Iran’s war information headquarters said the planes bombed a petrochemical plant in Basra, oil installations in Abul Khassib and a bridge linking Umm al Rasas, an island in the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway, with mainland Iraq. Baghdad Radio said Iraqi jets retaliated by bombing the cities of Hamadan in eastern Iran and Dezful in the southeast in simultaneous attacks. Iran’s air force was inactive during most of 1987 but Tehran apparently has managed to acquire spare parts for its U.S.-made aircraft.
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