The World - News from Nov. 19, 1985
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Iran said its warplanes hit an industrial area and troop concentrations in Iraq’s Misan province, inflicting “considerable casualties and losses.” It denied that one of its F-5 jet fighters was shot down in the raid, as Iraq has claimed. Iraq said its planes attacked Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf and hit a “large naval target”--a term used by Baghdad for a tanker. There was no independent confirmation of either side’s reports.
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