The World - News from Aug. 5, 1985

Iraq said its navy launched the second attack in as many days on Iran’s Now Ruz oil field in the Persian Gulf and said its soldiers killed nearly 5,000 Iranian troops in fighting last month. The Now Ruz rigs are in the central part of the northern gulf, 40 miles off the Iranian coast. There was no immediate comment from Iran on the reports. An official Iraqi spokesman also denied Iranian reports that only two Iranians were killed in marshland fighting along the southern border last month and said Iraqi forces killed 4,965 soldiers between July 14 and July 29.