War Heroes

از خانواده های این قهرمانان درخواست میشود با ارسال عکس آنها ما را در تکمیل این قسمت یاری دهند

Ironically, the fall of the Shah left Iran open to Iraqi attacks and from Feb. 1979 ( Bahman 1357 ) to September 1980 ( Shahrivar 1359 ) there were over 200 recorded Iraqi attacks. The first attack on Baneh (Kordestan) resulted in 15 deaths and 9 prisoners.

On September 22, 1980 ( 31 Shahrivar 1359 ), Iraqi fighter aircraft attacked ten air bases in Iran. Their aim was to destroy the Iranian air force on the ground. They succeeded in destroying runways and fuel and ammunition depots, but much of Iran’s aircraft inventory was left intact. Simultaneously, six Iraqi army divisions entered Iran on three fronts in an initially successful surprise attack.
On the Northern front, an Iraqi mountain infantry division captured Qasr-e Shirin, a border town in Kermanshahan Province, and occupied territory 30 kilometers eastward to the base of the Zagros Mountains.
On the Central front, Iraqi forces captured Mehran, on the western plain of the Zagros Mountains in Ilam province, and pushed eastward to the mountain base.
The main thrust of the attack, however, was in the south. Iraqi armored units easily crossed the Shatt al Arab waterway and entered the Iranian province of Khuzestan. While some divisions headed toward Khorramshahr and Abadan, others moved toward Ahwaz, the provincial capital and site of an important air base.
Supported by heavy artillery fire, the troops made a rapid and lightening advance – almost 60 kilometers in the first days.
In the battle for Dezful in Khuzestan, the Islamic regime was forced to halt the execution of hundreds of Iranian pilots accused of participating in a failed coup d’etat attempt in July 1980 and suspected of being loyal to the late Shah. It was these pilots who despite the serious deterioration of the air force were able to curtail the Iraqi advance with their heroic and skilled flying. However, it must be remembered that the Iraqi aggression took place at a time when the Islamic regime had purged the Imperial Armed Forces of many of its top command, officers, specialists and the most educated personnel. More than 2550 executions took place between 1979 and September 1980 with more than 1050 of them coming from the armed forces.
By not maintaining the high tech radar system the revolutionary authorities allowed the Iraqis to penetrate Iranian air space and placing Iran’s population under the threat of enemy bombardment. As the war continued, the revolutionary government had to admit its need for the professional services of many of the purged officers to lead the armed forces in defending the country.

History will record that during the 1970s, imperial Iran developed one of the most impressive military forces in the Middle East but the catastrophic events of islamic regime in 1979 weakened the armed forces and allowed the impossible to happen.
The war that H.I.M. Mohammed Reza Shah had averted in 1975 when Iran and Iraq signed a non-aggression pact was torn by Saddam Hussein in 1980 and ushered a war that was to cost over a million Iranian lives and 500,000 wounded casualties and billions of dollars of damages.
But let us not forget that it was the criminal incompetence of the mullahs and their systematic destruction of Iran’s armed forces that allowed the war to go on for eight long years.

List of IIAF Pilots who were killed in the Iran/Iraq War

Not included:
Pilots who ejected and became POW
Pilots who ejected and were rescued
This list needs to be completed,
I request everyone to help me to complete this list.

.....……….. Abbaszadeh
Khosrow Abdolkarimi ( F-4 ) Bandar Abbas
Abolhassan Aboulhassani ( F-5 ) over Ducan Dam
Majid Aboutalebi ( F-4 ) Bushehr
Hassan Afshin Azar ( F-5 ) Mossel
Nosratolah Aghaee ( C-130 ) Kermanshah 17-Dey -1359 =7 Jan. 1981
Abbas .Akbari ( F-4 ) Iraq
Khosrow Akhbari ( F-4 )
Davood Akradi ( F-4 ) Karkook 8 - Aban - 1360 = 30 Oct.1981
Hashem Ale Agha ( F-14 )Soth of Mahshahr 20 - Mordad - 1363 =11 Aug. 1984
Ali AliAkbaree ( F-4 ) Bushehr 7- Mehr - 1359 = 29 Sept. 1980
Masoud Amiri ( F-4 ) Aban - 1359 = Oct 1980
Asdolah AssadZadeh ( F-5 ) Over Faw

Asadolah Barbari ( F-5 ) over Rawanduz Mehr - 1359 = Sept 1980
Mohammad Balazadeh ( F-5 )
............. Bazargan ( F-5 )

Ebrahim Dalal Khosh 1363= 1984
Mohammad Hossein Darabee ( F-5 ) 26 - Esfand - 1359 = 17 Mar. 1981
Ebrahim Delhamed ( F-5 ) 70 NM from Mosul
Masihollah Din Mohammadi ( F-4 )
Abbas Dooran ( F-4 ) Baghdad 31- Tir - 1361 = 22 Jul. 1982
Naser Dezhpasand ( F-4 )

Ali Eqhbali ( F-5 ) over Aqrah
Mohammad Eshghipoor ( F-4 )
Abbas Eslami Nia ( F-4 ) Baghdad 1359 = 1980

...............Farahani ( F-4 ) Ghasre Shirin
Abbas Fazilat ( F-5 ) over Rawanduz
Bijan Feli

Hassan Ghahestani ( F-4 )
Reza Gharabaghi ( F-4 ) ????
Gholam Gholamrezaee ( F-5 ) Karkheh - Dezful 1359 = 1980
Khalil Ghobadi ( Helicopter ) Iraq
Mansour Ghoreyshi ( F-4 ) Mahshahr 18 - Bahman - 1359 = 7 Feb. 1981

Bijan Haji ( F-4 ) Over Iraq 18-Mehr 1359 = 10 Oct. 1980
Bijan Harooni ( F-5 ) Dezful
.......... Hassani ( F-4 ) Ghasre Shirin (Back Seat of Khoojasteh Nikoo) 1359 = 1980
Alireza Hashemian
…. Heidarian ( F- 4 ) Back seat of Salehi
Homayoun Hekmati ( F-4 ) Over Persian Gulf 15-Khoordad 1363 = 5 June 1984
Behzad Hessaree ( F-4 ) Bushehr 9 - Mordad - 1361= 31 Jul.1982
Khaled Heydari (F-4)
Sayed Mohamad Hoojati ( F-5 )

Ali Ilkhani ( F-4 ) Ghasre Shirin 1359 = 1980

Ali Jahan Shahloo ( F-5 ) Iraq
Ghafoor Jeddi ( F-4 )
...............Jooraki ( F-5 ) West of Dezful after Take off 13 - Mehr - 1359 = 5 Oct. 1980
Morad Ali Jahanshahloo ( F-5 )

................Kadkhoodaee ( F-4 ) Over Mahshahr 6 - Mehr - 1359 = 28 Sept. 1980
Mohammad Kambakhsh Ziaee ( F-5 ) 3 - Azar - 1359 = 24 Nov. 1980
Mohammad Reza Karimi ( F-4 ) Over Mahshahr 6 - Mehr - 1359 =28 Sept.1980
Parviz Keyhani Nejad ( F-4 ) Over Persian Gulf
...................................... ( F-4 ) Ghasre Shirin 1359 = 1980
Youness Khoshbin ( F-5 ) Karkheh - Dezful
Gholamhossein.Khoshniyyat ( F-5 ) Karkheh - Dezful
Ali Khosravi ( F-4 )
Ghodrat Kianjoo ( F-4 ) Back seat of Bijan Haji

Mansour Mohammadi Azad( F-5 ) Iraq - Esfand 1365 = Feb 1987
Masoud Mohammadi ( F-4 ) Bushehr 10 - Mehr - 1359 = 2 Oct. 1980
Gholam Rez Movahed ( F-4 )
Masih Alah Dinmohamadi ( F-4 )

Darioush Nadimi ( F-4 )
................ Nadernia ( F-5 ) 7 - Bahman - 1361 = 27 Jan. 1983
Ali Naghdi ( F-5 ) over Sahand & Sabalan-Tabriz
Reza Nooroozi ( F-4 ) West of Ahwaz
Mansour Nazerian ( F-5 )
Parviz Nooparast Haghighi ( F-4 )

Mohamad Ali Oshrieh ( Farzin ) ( F-5 ) Over Ahwaz
GholamHoussein Oroji ( F-5 )

Firooz Rahmatian ( F-4 )
Gholamreza Ranjbaran ( F-5 ) 15 - Mehr - 1359 = 7 Oct. 1980
……… Roozitalab ( F-4 )
Ahmad Ramezani (F-4)
Aliakbar Rashidi
Ghafar Raminfar ( F-4 )

Mohamad Salehi ( F-4 ) (Pour Rezaee's Wingman on 28 - Shahrivar - 1359 = 19 Sept.1980)
Mostafa "Hamid" Saghiri ( F-4 ) 3 - Mehr - 1359 = 25 Sept.1980
Changiz Sepehr ( F-5 ) West of Dezful after Take off 13 - Mehr - 1359 = 5 Oct. 1980
Mohammad Shademan Bakht ( F-4 ) 2 - Aban - 1359 = 24 Oct. 1981
Ali Shamsbeigi ( F-4 ) was killed on Helicopter crash over Kurdestan
Homayoon Shoghi ( F-4 )
Mohammad Shokoohnia ( RF-4 )
Ali Soleimani ( F-4 ) Persian Gulf
Shahab Soltani ( F-5 ) West of Dezful
Abbas Soltani ( RF-4 )
Firooz Sheikhhassani ( F-5 )

Hassan Taleb Mehr ( F-4 ) Ghasre Shirin 1359 = 1980
Ebrahim Tavakoli ( F-5 ) over Ahwaz
............................. ( F-4 ) Paveh 1358 =1980

Mahmood Yazdanpanah ( F-5 )
Toraj Yousef ( F-5 )

Parviz Zabihi ( F-5) NE of Mosel 22 - Aban - 1359 = 13 Nov. 1980
............. Zanjani ( F-5 ) Soleymanieh (Sharifi's Wingman)
Kazem Zarifkhadem ( F-5 ) West of Khaneh inside Iraq 3 - Mehr - 1359 = 25 Sept. 1980
Fereidoun Zolfaghari ( RF-4 ) Over Majnoon Islands 20 - Khoordad - 1359 =10 June 1980
Mehdi Zooghi ( F-4 ) Iraq
Rahim Zooghi Moghadam ( F-5 ) 21- Tir - 1361= 12 Jul. 1982

Mohamad Zareh Nemati (F-5)

to be completed …