Operation Dawn

As Operation Dawn (Iran: Valfajr , in English literature mostly as Operation Dawn translated) ten military operations were Iranian armed forces (army and Revolutionary Guard ) during the Iraqi-Iranian war called. The offensives of 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1988 were directed against different sections of the front. On the northern section of the front, they led to the occupation of some Iraqi border towns in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1983 and 1988 , and on the southern section of the front in 1984 to the conquest of the Iraqi port city of Fao . The Iranians did not succeed in conquering or at least enclosing Basra or Sulaimaniyya . The name dawn was related to the fact that Iranian attacks mostly began at dawn (especially al-Fajr) .

Period	designation	Front section	Target direction	result	annotation
Apr 10, 1983 to Apr 17, 1983	Operation Dawn 1	center	Amara	Iranian defeat
Jul 22, 1983 to Jul 30, 1983	Operation Dawn 2	north	Hajj Omran	Iranian victory
Jul 30, 1983 to Aug 9, 1983 0	Operation Dawn 3	center	Baghdad	Iranian defeat	Iraqi troops capture Mehran
Oct. 20, 1983 to Nov. 21, 1983	Operation Dawn 4	north	Penjwin	Iranian victory
Feb. 15, 1984 to Feb. 24, 1984	Operation Dawn 5	south	Basra	draw	until then the largest Iranian offensive of the war
Feb. 23, 1984 to Feb. 24, 1984	Operation Dawn 6	center	Amara	draw
Oct 18, 1984 to Oct 25, 1984	Operation Dawn 7	center		draw
0Feb. 9, 1986 to Feb. 25, 1986	Operation Dawn 8	south	Basra	Iranian victory	Iran conquers the Iraqi port city of Fao
Feb. 14, 1986 to March 3, 1986 0	Operation Dawn 9	north	Sulaimaniyya	draw
March 14, 1988 to March 22, 1988	Operation Dawn 10	north	Halabja	Iranian victory