Editing Iran–Iraq War (section)

====Operation Fath ol-Mobin====
Iran's next major offensive, led by Colonel [[Ali Sayad Shirazi]], was [[Operation Fath ol-Mobin]]. On 22 March 1982, Iran launched an attack which took the Iraqi forces by surprise: using [[Chinook helicopter]]s, they landed behind Iraqi lines, silenced their artillery, and captured an Iraqi headquarters.<ref name="Farrokh 03" />

The Revolutionary Guard and regular army followed up by surrounding the Iraqi [[9th Armoured Division (Iraq)|9th]] and [[10th Division (Iraq)|10th Armoured]] and [[1st Division (Iraq)|1st Mechanised Divisions]] that had camped close to the Iranian town of [[Shush, Iran|Shush]]. The Iraqi 12th Armoured Division counterattacked, breaking the encirclement and rescuing the surrounded divisions. Iraqi tanks came under attack by 95 Iranian F-4 Phantom and F-5 Tiger fighter jets, destroying much of the division.<ref name="Farrokh Wall Street Journal">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/idUS180865+31-May-2011+PRN20110531|agency=Reuters|title=Iran at war|date=31 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808231300/https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/idUS180865%2B31-May-2011%2BPRN20110531|archive-date=8 August 2014}} cited in {{cite web|url=http://www.kavehfarrokh.com/books/iran-at-war-1500-1988/|title=Review: Wall Street Journal and Reuters|first=Kaveh|last=Farrokh|access-date=25 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816123246/http://kavehfarrokh.com/books/iran-at-war-1500-1988/|archive-date=16 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Operation Fath ol-Mobin was an Iranian victory; Iraqi forces were driven away from Shush, Dezful and Ahvaz. The Iranian armed forces destroyed 320–400 Iraqi tanks and armoured vehicles in a costly success. In just the first day of the battle, the Iranians lost 196 tanks.<ref name="Farrokh 03" /> By this time, most of the Khuzestan province had been recaptured.<ref name=efraimkarsh />