Operation Morwarid
date | 28-29 November 1980 |
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place | Iraq and the Persian Gulf |
output | Iranian success |
Parties to the conflict | |
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Troop strength | |
8 motor torpedo boats , 5 speedboats , 8 MiG-23s , unknown number of MiG-21s , anti-aircraft |
6 amphibious assault ship , 2 missile speedboat , unknown number of aircraft, |
losses | |
5 Osa class , |
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 Morwarid ( Persian : عملیات مروارید [ æmælijɑt ɛ moɾvɑɾid ]) was the name of an operation by the Iranian Navy in the First Gulf War. The operation was carried out on November 28, 1980 with the support of the Iranian Air Force.
Iraq exported oil shipped through two large oil terminals, Mina Al-Bakr and Al-Omayye, in the Arwandrud estuary . Operation Morwarid destroyed these facilities, interrupted oil exports from Iraq through the Persian Gulf and made it impossible for tankers and merchant ships to travel to Iraq. In this operation, three Iraqi were MiG-23 shot down and at least thirteen Iraqi ships , the missiles and torpedoes carried were through AGM-65 Maverick sunk. An Iranian Phantom was shot down and a Peykan missile speedboat sunk by the Iraqi Navy.
Major Hosseyn Khalatbari, Lieutenant Colonel Abbas Doran, Colonel Yassini, Captain Kian Sajedi were the key people in this operation.
The company's planner was Naval Commander in Chief Bahram Afzali. He had already held the same office under the Shah. Some time after Operation Morwarid, Bahram Afzali was arrested for membership in the Tudeh Party of Iran and espionage for the Soviet Union , tried in a secret trial and shot with nine other officers .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat by Farzad Bishop & Tom Cooper , 2003, Osprey Publishing, p. 45, ISBN 1-84176-658-5
- ↑ Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat by Farzad Bishop & Tom Cooper, 2003, Osprey Publishing, p. 81, ISBN 1-84176-658-5