Operation Morwarid

Operation Morwarid

Part of: First Gulf War

date	28-29 November 1980
place	Iraq and the Persian Gulf
output	Iranian success

Parties to the conflict
Iraq	Iran
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 , 4 P-6 boats, 1 Aérospatiale SA 321 , 6 MiG-23 , 1 MiG-21 , some air defense , some tank farms , two oil towers	1 missile speedboat , 1 F-4 Phantom II

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

1. ↑ Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat by Farzad Bishop & Tom Cooper , 2003, Osprey Publishing, p. 45, ISBN 1-84176-658-5
2. ↑ Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat by Farzad Bishop & Tom Cooper, 2003, Osprey Publishing, p. 81, ISBN 1-84176-658-5