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Open war as Iraq is bombed

From James MacManus in Amman and agencies in Beirut
Tuesday September 23, 1980

The border conflict between Iraq and Iran turned into a full-scale war yesterday after both sides bombed each other's airbases and clashed repeatedly on the ground and at sea along the 720-mile frontier.
Iraqi jetfighters swept deep into Iran for the second time in less than 12 hours with a night-time bombing run over seven blacked-out Iranian airfields and radar stations.

Iraq also threatened to extend the war to the strategic Hormuz Straits. Nearly one third of all the oil used in the world passes through the straits.

The second Iraqi attack came a few hours after Iran retaliated for the first Iraqi bombing incident by blockading Iraqi ports, declared its coastal waters "war zones" and launching its own bombers against two Iraqi air bases, including Basra.

Conflicting reports from Baghdad and Tehran claimed that at least 24 Iraqis were killed, 36 Iranians were injured or captured, four Iraqi missile boats were sunk, 20 Iraqi aircraft were shot down and 11 Iranian planes or helicopters were lost.

The Iraqi news agency said that six Iranian jets were shot down and three Iranian pilots were captured during the night mission, when Iraq's jets swept hundreds of miles inside Iran. On the political front, the United Nations Secretary-General called for a ceasefire, Ayatollah Khomeini urged the Iraqis to overthrow their president and, in London, gold leaped by $34 an ounce to $711.50.

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