Operation Dawn 2

Operation Dawn 2
Part of Iran–Iraq War – the Northern Front
Date22–24 July 1983[1]
(3 days)
Location
Result

Iranian and Kurdish victory

  • Tactical Iraqi failure
  • Iraqi counter-attack fails
Territorial
changes
Iran captures strategic Haj Omran highlands
Belligerents
 Iraq  Iran
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Commanders and leaders
Iran Hujjat-ul-Islam Mostafa Raddanipoor  (commander of 14th Imam Hossein Division)
Iran Mahmoud Kaveh (commander of 155th Shohada Special Brigade)
Massoud Barzani
See #Order of battle for more
Units involved
See #Order of battle See #Order of battle
Strength
24 infantry battalions
4 commando and special forces battalions
4 border guard battalions[2]
Pasdaran:
16 infantry battalions
Army:
6 infantry battalions
1 mechanized battalion
1,500 militiamen[3]
KDP:
800 Peshmerga[1]
Casualties and losses
Several thousand killed[1]

Operation Dawn 2 or Operation Valfajr-2 (Persian: عملیات والفجر 2) was an Iranian operation during the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War. This operation opened a new front in northern Iraq/Iraqi Kurdistan also known as "the Northern Front". Despite Turkish help, this region was Iraq's weak point during the war as the Kurds sided with Iran.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Razoux, Pierre (2015). The Iran-Iraq War. Harvard University Press, 2015. p. 249-250. ISBN 978-0674915718.
  2. ^ "والفجر 2 | دفاع‌مقدس". Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  3. ^ "گزارش رسمی عملیات والفجر 2 | دفاع‌مقدس". Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  4. ^ The First Gulf War (Iran and Iraq at War in the 1980s)