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On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:33:20 +0100, you wrote: >In the Cambridge Evening News of 17 December 1998 (p.5), it was reported that >a US missile had fallen on the city of Khorramshahr in Iran, and that British >and Swiss (representing USA) diplomats had been summoned to the Foreign >Ministry in Tehran to receive an official protest. This was, apparently, one >of the missiles aimed at Basra in Iraq. snip > > Geoffrey Roper > Cambridge This was a story ran by Reuters News Agency based on reports from Iranian Radio and TV but did not get wide copy. The report was followed up on the 19th dec says that Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi phoned Robin Cook in protest about a stray missile that landed in Khorramshahr and also calling for the attacks against Iraq to stop . A further Reuter's report on the 20th said a foreign ministry spokesman said on Iranian TV that the US had "expressed regret " at the incident and that it would investigate it. Apparently this was a Cruise missile but" it was not clear whether the weapon's warhead had exploded" Also on the 22 of Dec , Reuters reported that 2 Iranian newspapers claimed that a second missile had landed in Khorramshar and had hit near a road. The radio also reported (Dec 19 ) that Kharrazi told Cook that as head of the OIC " there was extreme concern of the public opinion in the Islamic world about these attacks " Hope this helps Grayham Chayney We have smart cards, smart bombs and smart arses , what we need is smart people. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html