Operation Dawn 7

Operation Dawn 7
Date18–22 October 1984[1]
(5 days)
Location
Chazabeh
Result

Iranian operational failure

  • Iraqi defensive victory
  • Iranian forces had to cancel the operation due to Iraqi defense
Belligerents
 Iran Iraq Iraq

Operation Dawn 7 (Operation Walfajr-7; Persian: عملیات والفجر 7) was an offensive launched by Iran during Iran–Iraq War. It was aborted after just a few days of fighting[2] due to the specific conditions of the region/war,[3] such as: releasing water at the region by the Iraqi forces, etc.[4]

The (military) code of the operation was "Ya Zahra" (یازهرا); and the considered operational areas were consisted of Chazabeh which was located in the distance of 110 km to the north west of Ahwaz and Chilat (Dehloran).[5] (At the area of Zeid and Kooshk, where was located at the geographical location of --the north of-- Hosseinieh station.)[6][7]

Eventually, the determined operation[8][9] which was planned to be done after the Operation Dawn-6,[10][11] finally finished before beginning (as a specific situation and operation). Operation Dawn-7 went to the next step to perform the next operation --namely "Operation Dawn 8" (Operation Walfajr-8) on 9 February 1986 on the south fronts, located in Abadan (Faw).[12]

  1. ^ Razoux, Pierre (2015). The Iran-Iraq War. Harvard University Press, 2015. p. 269. ISBN 978-0674915718.
  2. ^ Undone operation Walfajr-7 mashreghnews.ir
  3. ^ Walfar-7 (Operation Dawn-7) tebyan.net Retrieved 27 May 2020
  4. ^ Operation Walfajr-7 (Dawn-7) aviny.com Retrieved 27 May 2020
  5. ^ Walfajr-7 fatehan.ir
  6. ^ Operation Walfajr-7 (and 6) dsrc.ir
  7. ^ Operation Walfajr-7 (Dawn-7) roshd.ir Retrieved 27 May 2020
  8. ^ The center of "preservation of the works/values of Defae-Moqqadas (holy defense)"
  9. ^ The reason of beginning of Operation Dawn-7 mashreghnews.ir Retrieved 27 May 2020
  10. ^ The table of holy defense tebyan.net
  11. ^ Roshd, National School Network, (Walfajr-7 [Dawn-7])
  12. ^ Ground operations of holy defense (Iran-Iraq War) fatehan.ir