The World - News from Jan. 30, 1987

Iraqi warplanes attacked Iranian targets, inflicting heavy casualties, an Iraqi military communique said. Iran, meanwhile, said its troops moved closer to Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, in the Iranian offensive that began Jan. 9. Iraq said that 24 planes raided the Iranian port of Bandar-e Mahshur, inflicting severe damage to the port’s facilities and causing heavy losses among Iranian troops guarding the facility. The planes hit a supertanker docked at the port and set ablaze a gas processing plant and oil depots, Iraq claimed. In Tehran, foreign journalists were ordered to leave after Iraqi planes flew over the capital.