Contested HAWK shipment reaches Tehran

MEES reported suppliers competing for pipe contracts in Iran’s proposed oil-export network bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. The project sought alternatives to vulnerable wartime sea routes.

Iran reported that alleged chemical artillery fire on Minou Island on 2 November severely injured eight people, requesting circulation of the complaint at the Security Council.

Kittani transmitted Baghdad’s denial of Iran’s chemical-artillery complaint. The Iraqi wording referred to deaths, a reading that Iran later corrected because its letter had reported injuries.

Iran sent the UN a list of teenage Iraqi prisoners, saying it was intended to inform the Secretary-General and reassure their families. The communication concerned identification, not repatriation.

Rajaie Khorassani corrected an Iraqi response to Iran’s Minou Island complaint, explaining that his earlier letter reported eight injured people, not eight deaths.

Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi presented the 1986–87 budget draft to the Majlis. Its projected $18.9 billion oil income shows the importance of export earnings to wartime finances.

A Syrian delegation’s Tehran visit ended with agreement on future Iranian oil supplies. The arrangement tied Syria’s energy needs to its alliance with Iran.

Reagan met senior advisers about further arms sales to Iran. Shultz and Weinberger objected on legal and policy grounds, while the initiative remained under consideration.

Amiram Nir presented a plan involving an initial Israeli shipment of 500 TOW missiles to Iran and hoped-for hostage releases. The proposal sought to restart the channel after the troubled HAWK...

Iraqi forces launched an attack on the contested islands captured in part by Iran in 1984. Control of Majnoon mattered for access to the southern front and the marshlands; the fighting demonstrated...