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| Battle of Mehran | |||||||||
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| Part of Iran–Iraq War | |||||||||
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 Iraq |
 Iran | ||||||||
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1,000 killed 80 tanks and 6 helicopters lost[2] |
3,000 killed 9,000 wounded[2] | ||||||||
In response to the loss of the strategic al-Faw Peninsula during the Iran–Iraq War, the Iraqis pushed into Iran to seize the strategic Iranian city of Mehran to trade for the strategically important territory. Saddam was able to seize the city in May 1986, for the third time. He then offered to trade it for al-Faw, but instead of negotiating, the Iranians recaptured the city in June 1986.
- ^ "People's Army / Popular Army / People's Militia". GlobalSecurity.org. 2007. Archived from the original on 11 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
- ^ a b Razoux, Pierre (2015). The Iran-Iraq War. Harvard University Press, 2015. p. 366. ISBN 978-0674915718.