What the records say
- When
- 29 Nov 1980
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 26.00° N, 52.00° E
- Description
- 1980 military operation
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Morvarid
1980 Iranian strike in the Iran–Iraq War
Operation Morvarid was an operation launched by the Iranian Navy and Air Force against the Iraqi Navy sites on 27 November 1980 in response to Iraq positioning radar and monitoring equipment on the Mina Al-Bakr and Khor-al-Amaya oil rigs to counter Iranian air operations.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Iranian Navy and Air Force dismantled most of Iraqi navy in Operation Morvarid”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Morvarid”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page