LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Iranian minesweeping

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

24 Aug 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:04:54

Description

Report by John Cookson from Iran, following the decision to allow foreign journalists into the country again; reports on funerals in Tehran of pilgrims claimed killed by Saudi Arabians; interview with Captain Faramarz Khosmanesh, Iranian Navy aboard minesweeper being demonstrated to journalists in the Persian Gulf; Ayatollah Mohammed Saeed Hakim, Iraqi Muslim Parliament (through interpretor) on UK minesweepers soon to arrive.

Contributors

John Cookson; Faramarz Khosmanesh; Saeed Hakim

Keywords

Iran; Tehran; Propaganda; Military affairs; Funerals; Saudi Arabia; Navy; Iraq; Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988); Naval operations

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