✦ History

Part of Iran–Iraq War

Tawakalna ala Allah Operations

April 17, 1988 – July 1988

Iraq launched five successful offensives that retook the al-Faw peninsula and pushed Iran back. The attacks, using chemical weapons, helped bring the Iran-Iraq War to an end.

Overview Contemporaries

Iraq

Iran

Iraq
Iran
Saddam Hussein military commander Salah Aboud Mahmoud military commander Maher Abd al-Rashid military commander Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi military commander
Ruhollah Khomeini military commander Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani military commander Mohsen Rezaee military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
1,500,000
Casualties
5,000
Tanks
5,500
Aircraft
900
Strength
300,000
Casualties
28,000
Captured
20,000
Tanks
400
Aircraft
55

Battles 1