✦ History

Part of Iran–Iraq War

First Battle of al-Faw

February 11 – March 10, 1986 · First Battle of al-Faw

Result Iranian victory

Iran crossed the Shatt al-Arab and took the al-Faw peninsula.

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Iran

Iraq

Iran
Iraq
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani military commander Mohsen Rezaee military commander Ali Sayyad Shirazi military commander Hossein Kharrazi military commander
Maher Abd al-Rashid military commander Sadi Tuma Abbas military commander Hisham Sabah al-Fakhri military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
10,000
Wounded
25,000

Units

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Iraqi VII Corps (1980–1988)