Back والفجر ۴ عملیاتی AZB Operation Morgenröte 4 German Operación Amanecer 4 Spanish عملیات والفجر ۴ Persian 第4次ヴァル・ファジュル作戦 Japanese Operasjon Val-Fajr 4 NB
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| Operation Dawn 4 | |||||||||
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| Part of Iran–Iraq War – Northern Front | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Iraq |
 Iran Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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108 infantry battalions 7 armoured battalions 1 mechanized battalion 25 commando battalions 8 Republican Guard battalions 7 artillery battalions[2] |
Iran:[2] IRGC: 47 infantry battalions 4 armoured battalions 4 mechanized battalion 3 artillery battalions Army: 17 infantry battalions, 8 artillery battalions PUK: Peshmerga partisans | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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2,800 killed 60 tanks and 20 artillery pieces lost[1] |
5,000 killed 15,000 wounded[1] | ||||||||
Operation Dawn 4 (Persian: عملیات والفجر 4) was an Iranian operation of the Iran–Iraq War launched in October 1983. At the end of the operation Iran had captured a small amount of territory from the Iraqis.
Units of Iraq's 1st Corps spent two months in their trenches waiting for the Iranians to attack. The offensive began on the 19 October 1983[3] and the Iranians and Peshmerga guerrillas of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan conquered about 250 square miles (650 km2) of territory. This included exerted a significant amount of pressure on Penjwen.[3]
Saddam Hussein responded with a counterattack, using the Iraqi Republican Guard and poison gas. However, they failed to dislodge the Iranians, who were dug-in and reinforced by Kurdish fighters.
- ^ a b c Razoux, Pierre (2015). The Iran-Iraq War. Harvard University Press, 2015. p. 254. ISBN 978-0674915718.
- ^ a b c "والفجر 4 | دفاعمقدس". Archived from the original on 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- ^ a b Entessar, Nader (1992). Kurdish Ethnonationalism. Lynn Rienner Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-55587-250-2.
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