The World - News from Dec. 25, 1985

Iraq has acquired new weapons that will “surprise” the world, and it plans to use them against Iran in the stalemated Persian Gulf War, a Baghdad newspaper reported. The newspaper Al Qadisiyah quoted the Iraqi air force commander on the subject of the weapons but gave no details. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who visited Moscow recently, is believed to have won a promise of new weaponry. Iraq, meanwhile, reported that its warplanes struck a large vessel--believed to be an oil tanker--in the Persian Gulf and set fire to Iran’s oil export terminal at Kharg Island.