Nojeh coup plot

"Saving Iran's Great Uprising"
Part of Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution
Date9–10 July 1980[2]
Location
Result

Coup d'état failed

Government-Insurgents

Iran Government of Islamic Republic of Iran


Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization[1]


Intelligence aid:

Iran Azadegan Organization

  • Neqab Organisation
  • Iran Patriotic Officers (NUPA)[2]

Supported by:
Commanders and leaders
Units involved

Second Bureau of Army
Revolutionary Guards

Revolutionary Committees
Prime Ministry Intelligence Office
Retired and active-duty personnel from:[2]
Strength
  • 700–750 military personnel[2]
  • 300–400 civilians (~100 in Tehran)[2]
Casualties and losses
1 KIA[3]
  • ~10 KIA[2]
  • Hundreds arrested, including 284 participants[2]
  • 144 executed[2]

The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" (Persian: نجات قیام ایران بزرگ; acronymed NEQAB, Persian: نقاب, lit.'Mask') more commonly known as the Nojeh coup d'état (Persian: کودتای نوژه, romanizedKūdetâ-ye Nowžeh), was a plan to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran and its government of Abolhassan Banisadr and Ruhollah Khomeini.[4]

  1. ^ Mohammadighalehtaki, Ariabarzan (2012). Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat) (Ph.D. thesis). Durham University. p. 166.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cite error: The named reference Gasiorowski was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Nojeh Coup (in Persian). Political Studies and Research Institute. 2005. pp. 263–279. ISBN 9645645573. ستوانیار محمد اسماعیل قربانی اصل (تنها شهید عملیات خنثی‌سازی کودتا)
  4. ^ Emery, Chris (2013). "Reappraising the Carter Administration's response to the Iran-Iraq war". The Iran-Iraq War: New International Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 9780415685245.