Operation Dawn 2
| date | July 22 , 1983 to July 30, 1983 |
|---|---|
| place | Kurdistan Autonomous Region |
| output | Decisive Iranian victory |
| consequences | Iran conquers Haj Omran |
| Parties to the conflict | |
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Iraqi Invasion (1980)
Entegham - Kaman 99 - Khorramshahr - Sultan 10 - Scorch Sword - Abadan - Kafka - Ashkan - Morwarid - Dezful
Standoff (1981) Tavakol - Susangerd - H-3
Iranian offensives for the liberation of Iranian territory (1981–82)
Sam-ol-A'emeh - Tariq al-Qods - Fath ol-Mobin - Beit ol-Moqaddas - liberation of Khorramshahr
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1982–84)
Ramadan - Muslim Ibn Aqil - Muharram ol-Harram - Dawn 1 - Dawn 2 - Dawn 3 - Dawn 4 - Dawn 5 - Kheibar - Kurdish Uprising - Dawn 6 - Dawn 7 - Hawizeh Marshland
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1985-87)
Badr - Dawn 8 - 1. al-Faw - Dawn 9 - Karbala 1 - Karbala 2 - Karbala 3 - Fath 1 - Karbala 4 - Karbala 5 - Karbala 6 - Karbala 7 - Karbala 8 - Karbala 9 - Karbala10 - Nasr 4
Last year of the war (1988)
Beit ol-Moqaddas 2 - Anfal - Halabdscha - Zafar 7 - Tawakalna ala Allah - 2nd al-Faw - Shining Sun - 40 stars - Mersad
Tanker War
Earnest Will - Prime Chance - Eager Glacier - Nimble Archer - Praying Mantis
International Incidents
USS Stark - Iran Air Flight 655
Operation Dawn 2 (Persian Valfajr 2 ; in English literature mostly translated as Operation Dawn 2 ) was an Iranian offensive during the Iran-Iraq war that lasted from July 22nd to 30th, 1983.
This operation opened a new front in northern Iraq and, despite Turkish aid, was the weak point on the Iraqi front while the Kurds entered the war on Iran's side.
prehistory
In the year before the offensive, the Iraqi and Iranian armed forces were stalemated on the southern front.
The Iranians repeatedly used waves of human attack in the southern marshes , but these were repulsed by the Iraqi Third Corps .
Meanwhile, the Iranian government managed to win the favor of the Kurdish people in the northern part of Iraq, so that the chance of deciding the war in the north increased. The aim of the operation was to conquer the border town of Haj Omran and to pull the Peshmerga on their side, as they knew the terrain and the people.
course
On July 22, 1983, Iranian forces advanced west from Piranshahr and were very successful against the Iraqis in Haj Omran and were able to conquer the city. The Iranians and Kurdish guerrillas used the terrain for raids on Iraqi positions and convoys and were able to conquer a total of around 390 km² of Iraqi territory.
Iraq responded with a counter-offensive and the use of chemical weapons. The inexperienced Iraqis often made mistakes with the warfare agent, so that their own troops were also affected. The Iraqis could hardly use tanks because of the terrain .
Web links
- The Longest War , by Dilip Hiro, Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1991
- The Iran-Iraq War , by Stephen Pelletiere, Praeger Publishers, New York, NY, 1992.
- The first Gulf War