Operation Mersad information

Operation Forough Javidan/Mersad
	Part of the Iran–Iraq War
	; Burned-out vehicles shown in the aftermath of Operation Mersad
Date	26–30 July 1988; (4 days)
Location	Kermanshah Province
Result	Iranian victory; Defeat of the Mojahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK); 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners;
Territorial; changes	Status quo ante bellum The Shatt al-Arab and other disputed territories along the border (3000sq.km) remain under unilateral Iraqi control until 16 August 1990 when both parties signed a formal peace agreement, after which Iraq and Iran re-ratified the 1975 Algiers Agreement.;
Belligerents
Mojahedin-e-Khalq	Iran
Commanders and leaders
Massoud Rajavi	Ruhollah Khomeini; Ali Sayad Shirazi; Mohsen Rezaei;
Units involved
National Liberation Army of Iran	27th Muhammad Rasulullah Division; 81st Armoured Division of Kermanshah; 35th Takavar Separate Brigade of Kermanshah; Havanirooz 1st Combat Base;
Strength
7,000 MEK troops; ; 300 tanks; unknown number of artillery pieces and aircraft	210,000 Iranians engaged; 1,200,000 total; 365 tanks; unknown number of artillery pieces and aircraft
Casualties and losses
1,500 to 2,506 KIA (Iranian claim); 1,263 KIA, WIA, MIA, POW (MEK claim); 2,000 KIA (independent estimate); several thousand hanged for treason 200 Tanks destroyed (Iranian claim) ; 400 APCs ; 90 pieces of 80mm mortar ; 150 pieces of 60mm mortar ; 30 pieces of 106mm recoilless rifles[citation needed]	480 KIA (Iranian claim)

Operation Forough Javidan (Persian: عملیات فروغ جاویدان, lit. Operation Eternal Light, MeK's codename) and Operation Mersad (Persian: عملیات مرصاد, lit. Operation Ambush, Iranian codename) were among the last major military operations of the Iran–Iraq War.

In July 1988, 7,000 militants from the Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) invaded Iranian Kurdistan, hoping to capture Kermanshah.^[1] Led by Lieutenant-General Ali Sayad Shirazi, Operation Mersad began on 26 July 1988 and lasted only a few days, whereby the Iranian Armed Forces defeated MEK forces.

^ ^a ^b ^c Farrokh, Kaveh (20 December 2011). Iran at War: 1500–1988. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 413–414. ISBN 978-1-78096-221-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Yaghoub Nemati Voroujeni (Summer 2012), "Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) Organization in the Imposed War", Negin-e-Iran (in Persian), 41 (11): 75–96, archived from the original on 18 November 2016, retrieved 2 December 2016
^ بخشهایی از گزارش نهایی ستاد فرماندهی ارتش آزادیبخش ملی ایران درباره عملیات بزرگ فروغ جاویدان ـ ۸ شهریور ۱۳۶۷
^ "The Cult of Rajavi" by Elizabeth Rubin. New York Times, 13 July 2003
^ Lamb, Christina (19 June 2001). "Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 March 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
^ Cite error: The named reference reference3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "روایت حاج سعید از عملیات مرصاد". YouTube.

[Farrokh_03-1] Farrokh, Kaveh (20 December 2011). Iran at War: 1500–1988. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 413–414. ISBN 978-1-78096-221-4.

[ni-2] Yaghoub Nemati Voroujeni (Summer 2012), "Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) Organization in the Imposed War", Negin-e-Iran (in Persian), 41 (11): 75–96, archived from the original on 18 November 2016, retrieved 2 December 2016

[MEKclaims-3] بخشهایی از گزارش نهایی ستاد فرماندهی ارتش آزادیبخش ملی ایران درباره عملیات بزرگ فروغ جاویدان ـ ۸ شهریور ۱۳۶۷

[4] "The Cult of Rajavi" by Elizabeth Rubin. New York Times, 13 July 2003

[5] Lamb, Christina (19 June 2001). "Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 March 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

[reference3-6] Cite error: The named reference reference3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[7] "روایت حاج سعید از عملیات مرصاد". YouTube.

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