Operation Morvarid

Operation Morwarid (Persian: عملیات مروارید [ æmælijɑt moɾvɑɾid ɛ ] ) was the name of an operation of the Iranian navy in the First Gulf War. The company was held on November 28, 1980 with the support of the Iranian Air Force.

Iraq exported oil, which was loaded on two large oil terminals, Mina Al -Bakr and Al - Omayye, in the estuary of Arwandrud. Through the operation Morwarid these facilities were destroyed and oil exports from Iraq interrupted by the Persian Gulf and made ​​the traffic of tankers and merchant ships for Iraq impossible. In this operation, three Iraqi MiG -23 were shot and at least thirteen Iraqi ships that carried missiles and torpedoes were sunk by the AGM-65 Maverick. An Iranian Phantom was shot down and a Peykan - missile patrol boat sunk by the Iraqi Navy.

Major Hosseyn Khalatbari, Lieutenant Colonel Abbas Doran, Colonel Yassini, captain Kian Sajedi were the key people of this operation.

The planner of the company was the Navy commander of the Marine Bahram Afzali. This had already occupied the same office under the Shah. Some time after the operation Morwarid Bahram Afzali was arrested for membership in the Tudeh Party of Iran and spying for the Soviet Union, convicted in a secret trial and shot with nine other officers.