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Operation Nasr
Part of Iran–Iraq War
Date
January 5–9, 1981
Location
Dezful, southwest Iran
Result
Iraqi victory
Iranian counter-attack fails.
Iraqis maintain the siege of Abadan, Ahvaz, Andimeshk, Dezful, Shush, Susangerd as well as continuing to besiege the nearby Air Force Base named Vahdati—all were receiving artillery fire and were hit by Frog-7 missiles
Belligerents
Iraq
Iran
Commanders and leaders
Colonel Mahmoud Shukr Shahin[1]
Abolhassan Banisadr Meguertitch Khan Davidkhanian
Strength
Three armored brigades from the 6th and 9th Armored divisions (T-62s)[2][1] as well as T-72 tanks from the 10th independent armored brigade[2] 350 tanks in total[2]
Three armored brigades from the 16th and 92nd Armored divisions (M60s and Chieftain tanks) 330 tanks in total[3]
214 tanks destroyed/captured[5] 150 APCs/IFVs destroyed/captured[6] Some self-propelled artillery destroyed 8 AH-1J Cobras downed[7] Several fighter-bombers downed 141–300 killed (Iranian claim) Heavy casualties (Iraqi claim)
[8]
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Iran–Iraq War
Pre-war incidents
1975 Algiers Agreement
Iranian Revolution
1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
1979 Khuzestan insurgency
Iranian Embassy siege
Iraqi invasion of Iran (1980)
Iraqi airstrike
Revenge
Kaman 99
1st Khorramshahr
Scorch Sword
Dezful
Sultan 10
Abadan
Morvarid
Stalemate (1981)
Nasr
H-3
Opera
Iranian offensives to free Iranian territory (1981–82)
Samen-ol-A'emeh
Tariq-ol-Qods
Fath-ol-Mobin
Beit-ol-Moqaddas (2nd Khorramshahr)
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1982–84)
Ramadan (1st Basra)
Moslem Ibn Aqil
Muharram ol-Harram
Before the Dawn
Dawn 1
Dawn 2
Dawn 3
Dawn 4
Dawn 5 (2nd Basra)
Kheibar (3rd Basra)
Kurdish rebellion (1983)
Dawn 6
Dawn 7
Marshes
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1985–87)
Badr (4th Basra)
Dawn 8 (1st al-Faw)
Dawn 9
Karbala 1 (Mehran)
Karbala 2
Karbala 3
Fath 1
Karbala 4 (5th Basra)
Karbala 5 (6th Basra)
Karbala 6
Karbala 7
Karbala 8 (7th Basra)
Karbala 9
Karbala 10
Nasr 4
Final stages (1988)
Beit-ol-Moqaddas 2
Anfal campaign
Beit-ol-Moqaddas 3
Dawn 10
Halabja massacre
Beit-ol-Moqaddas 4
Zafar 7
Tawakalna ala Allah (2nd al-Faw)
Forty Stars
Eternal Light
Mersad
Tanker War
June 5 1984 Skirmish
Earnest Will
Bridgeton incident
Prime Chance
Eager Glacier
Nimble Archer
Praying Mantis
International incidents
1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut
USS Stark incident
Iran Air Flight 655
Operation Nasr, also known as Operation Hoveyzeh,[9] fought in early January 1981, was a major battle of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the biggest tank battle of the war.
Three Iranian armored regiments advanced towards Iraqi forces that had invaded Iranian territory between the cities of Ahvaz, Susangerd and Dezful. The Iraqi forces were alerted to this movement and feigned a withdrawal. The Iraqis formed three armored brigades into a three-sided box ambush. The Iranians blundered into the ambush and the two tank forces battled for four days in a sea of mud. The Iranians withdrew, leaving many destroyed and disabled tanks stuck in the mud, or, because of logistical misplanning, had run out of fuel and ammunition. The condition of the terrain prevented a clean break from the battle and did not allow the Iraqi forces to pursue what was left of the Iranians en force.
^ abProject 1946: Phase II dtic.mil
^ abcPollack, Kenneth Michael (January 2004). Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803206860.
^ ab"Getty Images". www.itnsource.com.
^ abتبیان, موسسه فرهنگی و اطلاع رسانی (11 December 2017). "Nasr offensive operation (January 5th, 1981)". سایت موسسه فرهنگی و اطلاع رسانی تبیان (tebyan.net).
^Pollack, Kenneth. "Arabs at War". University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Page 194.
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