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Iraq's Boarian island, adjacent to Iran's Shalamche border city in Khouzestan province, was hit Saturday evening by three missiles, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Columns of heavy smoke were seen rising skyward from the spots hit by the missiles, witness in Shalamche said.
Loud explosions were heard before people saw glaring fire balls lit up the sky for a few minutes.
US warplanes on Saturday fired four rockets at Iran's southwestern city of Khorramshahr close to the border with Iraq.
On Friday, two people were injured when a bomb from a US plane fell on a petrol depot and exploded near Iran's southwestern border town of Abadan.
Iranian supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the ongoing US-led war on Iraq, saying this invasion marks the emergence of a new form of "Hitlerism" in the world history.
Khamenei told a huge gathering for the Iranian New Year in eastern city Mashhad that an attack by a sovereign state against another under any false pretext is abominable in the eyes of world public opinion, IRNA reported.
The United States began its military campaign to disarm Iraq less than two hours after its ultimatum for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down expired at 0100 GMT Thursday.
(Xinhua News Agency March 23, 2003)
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