IRAN: SOVIET DIPLOMATS GIVEN PERMISSION TO LEAVE BAGHDAD, ARRIVE IN BORDER TOWN OF KHOSRAVI

Record ID: 860982

  • Title: IRAN: SOVIET DIPLOMATS GIVEN PERMISSION TO LEAVE BAGHDAD, ARRIVE IN BORDER TOWN OF KHOSRAVI
  • Date: 30th January 1991
  • Summary: KHOSRAVI, IRAN/IRAQ BORDER (JANUARY 30, 1991) SLV CONVOY OF CARS QUEUEING AT BORDER SCU REFUGEE IN CAR SAYS "HELLO" (ENGLISH SOT) SCU UNIDENTIFIED SOVIET DIPLOMAT SAYING BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED BUT COMMUNICATIONS WERE INTACT AND HE HAD NOT SEEN ANY WOUNDED (ENGLISH SOT) DIPLOMAT: "THE BUILDINGS ARE DAMAGED BUT THE CENTRALS, THAT'S THE COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING, THE POST OFFICE, THE TELEGRAPH, THE T.V. COMMUNICATION CENTRE IS NOT FAR AWAY FROM OUR EMBASSY, IT IS DAMAGED, BUT NO I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY WOUNDED PEOPLE." SV IRANIAN TROOPS CHECKING CARS WITH REFUGEES SLV REFUGEES STANDING IN LINE OUTSIDE TENT SCU IRANIAN OFFICIALS PROCESS IDENTIFICATION PAPERS SCU IRANIAN GUARD IN RED BERET BEHIND BARBED WIRE SV BOXES AND BAGS BELONGING TO REFUGEES SCU/LV REFUGEE STANDING OUTSIDE ROW OF TENTS
  • Embargoed: 14th February 1991 12:00
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  • Location: KHOSRAIV, IRAN/IRAQ BORDER
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  • Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5T1BUGZ91DHRK0EX5U77BSE5J
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  • Story Text: Thirty-two Soviet diplomats, given permission to leave Baghdad, arrived at the Iranian border town of Khosravi on Wednesday (January 30) while Iraqi refugees also continued to enter Iran.

    The Soviet news agency Tass said a further 13 Soviet diplomats remained in Baghdad and six journalists were denied permission to leave.

    Water and electricity to the Soviet Embassy were cut off soon after the first United States (US)-led allied air raids on Baghdad in mid-January. About 8,000 Soviets were in Iraq - previously a Soviet ally - before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

    One of the diplomats arriving in Khosravi said that many buildings had been damaged in Baghdad but that central communications were still working. He added that he had not seen any wounded people.

    Iraqi refugees and expatriates have also continued to stream into Iran. Dr M. Zavad Zarif, Iraq's deputy ambassador, said the refugees had told of shortages of food, medicine and other supplies, particularly in the country's rural areas.

    He said Iran had been approached by other nations, mostly Islamic countries, to help with supplies and said the first consignment of medicine had reached Iraq under supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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