📅 22 March 1982
Iran opened a major offensive in the Shush–Dezful area. Regular army units and Revolutionary Guards combined conventional maneuver with mass volunteer assaults. The operation inflicted a major...
📅 30 March 1982
The operation ended after Iranian forces retook substantial territory and forced Iraqi units to withdraw toward the prewar boundary. Iranian accounts presented the outcome as proof that the invasion...
📅 30 April 1982
Iran began the main offensive toward Khorramshahr. Its success depended on coordinated movements by regular army units, Guards, and volunteers through difficult terrain and Iraqi defensive lines....
📅 12 May 1982
By mid-May, Iranian forces had pushed Iraqi troops back toward Khorramshahr after weeks of fighting. The advance set up the final assault on the city and made the defense of Iraq’s last major foothold...
📅 20 May 1982
Iranian forces attacked fortified Iraqi positions around Khorramshahr. Iraq had reinforced the city, and the fighting was intense. Iran’s advance culminated in the city’s recapture several days later,...
📅 29 July 1982
After weeks of fighting, Iranian forces did not penetrate Iraqi defenses around Basra. The operation revealed the high cost of advancing into prepared Iraqi positions and the difficulty Iran faced...
📅 22 July 1983
Iranian forces opened Operation Dawn 2 in the northern sector, advancing into Iraqi Kurdistan. The operation widened the front and sought to stretch Iraqi forces while supporting Kurdish opposition to...
📅 15 February 1984
Iran began a major offensive through the marshes east of Basra. The operation sought to bypass Iraqi defenses and threaten the strategic road linking Basra and Baghdad. Iranian troops faced...
📅 22 February 1984
Iranian units seized positions in the Majnoon oil-field islands during Operation Kheibar. The gains demonstrated Iran’s capacity to surprise Iraqi defenses in marshland, while exposing Iranian...
📅 11 March 1985
Iranian forces began Operation Badr in an attempt to cross the Tigris and threaten the Baghdad–Basra highway. The offensive made an initial bridgehead but faced a powerful Iraqi counterattack. The...
📅 9 February 1986
Iran began a surprise amphibious and ground offensive through the Shatt al-Arab marshes toward al-Faw. The operation combined Revolutionary Guard, army, and volunteer forces and took advantage of...
📅 11 February 1986
Iranian forces secured al-Faw, giving Iran its most significant territorial gain since Khorramshahr. The capture threatened Iraq’s limited access to the Gulf and shocked Baghdad and its supporters....
📅 24 December 1986
Iran began an offensive aimed at crossing the Shatt al-Arab and advancing toward Basra. Iraqi forces repelled the operation with heavy losses to Iranian troops. The failure preceded another major...
📅 9 January 1987
Iran began its largest offensive of the war, targeting Iraqi defenses east of Basra. The battle involved mass infantry assaults, artillery, and heavy casualties on both sides. Iran hoped that taking...
