The World - News from Feb. 25, 1986
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A key Iraqi field commander backed off earlier predictions of a quick victory in a counterattack against Iranian troops holding the southern tip of Iraq’s Faw Peninsula. Speaking to Western reporters in Basra, Lt. Gen. Maher Abdel-Rashid, commander of the 3rd Army Corps, conceded that the water-logged terrain of salt marshes and flooded plains made for “slow and difficult going.” Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council unanimously called on Iran and Iraq to cease fire immediately and withdraw to internationally recognized borders.
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