IRAN-IRAQ SITUATION REPORT, 6 MARCH 1984

Created: 3/6/1984

OCR scan of the original document, errors are possible

crrr

TKAN-IRAU situation kil.^jm,mwmiraqi counterattack against manjoon islands

the iraqi defense minister announced ihis morning that iraqi forces hadajor offensive to recapture the two manjoon islands, in the southern marsh areas, which the iranians took last week. iranian press reports claim the attack by iraqi infiltrators mas repulsed and the enemy

r losses. I n

DRIVE THE enemy FROM THE

iIFFICULT TO DRIVE TKE

THE IRAQIS PROBABLY wet. ISLANDS BEFORE THE IRANIANS HAVE COMPLETED 3'JILDING THEIR PONTOON BRIDGE. THIS BRIDGE KILL LINK THE MORE NORTHERN OF THE TWO ISLANDS WITH IRANIAN FORCES ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF-Ht MARSHES IN IRAN AND PROVIDE THEMORWARD BASE TO AT:ACK IRAQI POSITIONS TO THE SOUTH OR THREATEN THE BAGHDAD TO AL

.1. :nii -

IRANIANS OFF THE MORE NOTHERN OF THE TWO ISLANDS. INFANTRY PROBABLY IS WELL DUG AND TROOPS ARMED WIT

BASRAH ROAD TC THE WEST.

3. THE IRAQIS WILL FIND LT li

TA T.

HE EAVY

TOLL

NARROWOULD EASILY BECI OUT AND BLOCK FOI LOSSES, THE IPAQ AND ARTILLERY FF1 THAT THIS, ALONG IRANIAN INFANTRY COMMANDO FOflCE T< COMMANDERS MAY Bl IN THE AREA, HOWt

AN ATTACK OVER THE LONG RN AND NORTHERN ISLANDS LEAD ELEMENTS ARE KNOCKED ADVANCING. TO REDUCE SCENTRATE PREPARATORY AIR KIAN POSITIONS IN THE HOPE PONS, WILL WEAKEN THF.

TRY TOELIBORNE S IGHT ATTACK. IRAQI OCTANT TO PUT ANY AIRCRAFT ISLANDS ARE WITHIN RANGE OF

IRANIAN hawk MISSILE SITES.

4 MEANWHILE, THE iraqis AHL CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN THETr'dEFENSFS is THE SOUTH IN ANTICIPATION OF THE MAJOR IRANIAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST al BASRAH,

APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE:4

LY SHELLING Livii.im'i

iranians Peas of the

ALTHOUGH C'VTLIAN LOSSES FROM SHRAPNEL WOUNDS HAVE BEEN AND SOME FOOD SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED. CIVILIAN MORALE WAS GOOD AND THE PEOPLE SFF.MF.D^ GENUINELY HAPPY WITH RECENT IRAQI MILITARY SUCCESSES

EXT

CONDE

ST APONS AG

FA*

AUTHORITIES AND TIGHTEN

IRAQI react:

8. 3AC1

use of chem: denounced the us although angerl: certainly misland

ACTIVITIES KAJL a'hUhl

efforts to locate draft dodgers

al warfare rongly to us condemnation of iraq's

IRAN. AN IRAQI SPOKESMAN STATEMENT AS FALLACIOUS AND HYPOCRITICAL. BY WASHINGTON'S CRITICISM, BAGHDAD ALMOST

LL CONTINUE TO USE CHEMICAL AGENTS.

CHARTER ANDATES INCREASE IN THE GULF

10. IRAQ'

KS ON TANKERS NEAR KHARK 'SI.ANDORE RECENT ATTACK ON MERCHANT SHIPPING NEARHOMEINI HAVE LED TO INCREASES IJ BOTH CHARTER RATES FDR TANKERS LOADING IN THE GULF AND WAR RISiC INSURANCE PREMIUMS FOR OIL TANKERS AND CARGOES COMING OL'T CF KHARK THE EFFECT OF THESE INCREASES ON TKE PRICE COMPETITIVENESS OF GULF

WESTERN FRO

CRUDES AMD EXPORT ACTIVITY AT KHARK WI0 AT MOST TO THE DELIVERY COST

PEHCEN

rfflsTER RATES FOR SHIPMENTS t

vnnriPF HAVF RISEN SINCEEBRUARY Bi

ER BARRELER BARREL, ACCORDING TO THE INTF.RN ATIONAL SHIPPING PRESS. RATES OUT OF ARAB PORTSLSO HAVE RISEN. BUT ONLY BY

Original document.

---

---