IRAQ-IRAN

Iraq Attacks Three Iranian Energy-Related Facilities

In an apparently new turn in the six-year old Gulf war, Iraq is now directing more of its air strikes against domestic Iranian energy-related facilities. The Iraqi air force attacked the Isfahan refinery in the central part of the country on 18 March, an electric power plant northeast of Ahwaz in the Khuzistan province on 22 March and the oil pumping terminal at Ganaveh on 27 March, the latest target having been hit ten times...