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Scheme of Operation Opera targeting Iraqi nuclear reactor5 January – For the first time since Iraq had invaded its territory in September, Iran launched a counterattack, concentrating its armies at Sousangerd. After 18 months, Iraqi forces had been driven out of Iran, which then began a drive toward capturing Iraqi territory. The war would continue until 1988.[1]
7 June – Israel bombs the nearly completed but not operational Iraqi nuclear reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad in an operation known as Operation Opera. It was the world's first attack on a nuclear plant.[2]
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