The battle of the cities was on again as Iraq and Iran resumed the bombing of each other's capitals after a respite of several weeks. Iraq opened the latest round with air attacks against Tehran, Iran's capital, and a dozen other cities. Iran in turn fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad, reportedly destroying part of a soccer stadium, and launched air strikes against nine other Iraqi targets. Iran apparently was also responsible for a rocket strike on a West German freighter in the gulf.
Iraq, whose air superiority over Iran is estimated at about 7 to 1, declared that it had...
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