Learning on ScreenUS Navy blows up Iranian oil rig
- Title
- US Navy blows up Iranian oil rig
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 19 Oct 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:02:06
- Description
- US Secretary of State Caspar Weinberger (and another unidentified speaker reading a statement prepared by President Ronald Reagan) announces at a briefing that the US Navy has blown up an Iranian oil rig. It was a response to Iranâs silkworm missile attack on a Kuwaiti tanker in the Gulf. Slight crackle on audio.
- Contributors
- Caspar Weinberger
- Keywords
- USA; Iran; Shipping; Military operations; Kuwait; Oil industry; Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
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