Operation Strike of Muharram

Operation Strike of Muharram
Part of the reactions to the Ahvaz military parade attack and the Deir ez-Zor Governorate campaign of the Syrian civil war
TypeMissile and drone strike
Location
34°41′22″N 40°49′51″E / 34.68944°N 40.83083°E / 34.68944; 40.83083
TargetIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Date1 October 2018
2 a.m. local time (UTC+03:30)
Executed byIRGC Aerospace Force
Hajin is located in Mesopotamia
Hajin
Hajin
Location of the ISIL base hit by missiles

On 1 October 2018, under the code name Operation Strike of Muharram (Persian: ضربت محرم, romanizedZarbat-e-Moharram),[1] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducted missile and drone strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant based east of the Euphrates river in Syria in retaliation to the Ahvaz military parade attack the previous week.

  1. ^ Nadimi, Farzin (1 October 2018), "For a Second Time, Iran Fires Missiles at IS Targets in Syria", The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (PolicyWatch), no. 3022