Operation Dawn 4
date | October 20 , 1983 to November 21 , 1983 |
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place | Penjwin , Kurdistan Autonomous Region |
output | Iranian victory |
consequences | Iran conquers the area around Penjwin |
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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 4 (Persian Valfajr 4 ; in English literature mostly translated as Operation Dawn 4 ) was an Iranian offensive in the Iraq-Iran war . By the end of the operation, Iran had captured a small amount of Iraqi territory.
battle
Units of the first Iraqi army corps had been waiting for an Iranian attack for two months. On October 20, 1983, the Iranian offensive began and, supported by Kurdish Peshmerga , they managed to capture 650 km 2 of Iraqi territory. This included a number of Kurdish villages that belonged to Penjwin, which put a lot of pressure on the city. Saddam Hussein responded with a counter-attack, with the Iraqi Republican Guard and the use of poison gas . However, they failed due to the Iranian Kurdish defense, which then captured Penjwin.
Aftermath
The attack was very successful, despite the fact that Iran suffered heavy losses from the use of chemical weapons. In contrast to other operations and battles in the Iraq-Iran war, the environment and operational constraints became very important to the outcome of the battle.
In response to this victory, Saddam Hussein ordered multiple rocket attacks on six different cities.
Web links
- The Iran-Iraq War: Unattainable Objectives
- The Longest War, by Dilip Hiro, Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1991 (p. 102).