VOL. XXXI

NO. 39

4-JULY-1988

IRAQ-IRAN

Iraq Attacks Major Iranian Gas Plant

Iraqi jets attacked on 30 June a major gas treatment plant at the Kangan-Narfields in southwest Iran. According to a spokesman for the South Koreanconstruction firm Daelim, whose company has been building parts of the plantunder a $180mn contract, 13 South Korean workers were killed and 37 injured inthe raid, along with a number of Iranian employees. The site, some 750 kms.south of Iraq, sustained damage and fire but no...