Contemporary era · 1980
Operation Morvarid
Operation Morvarid (Persian: عملیات مروارید, lit. 'Operation Pearl') was an operation launched by the Iranian Navy and Air Force against the Iraqi Navy sites on 27 November 1980 in response to Iraq positioning radar and monitoring equipment on the Mina Al-Bakr and Khor-al-Amaya oil rigs to counter Iranian air operations.
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- When
- 29 Nov 1980
- Where
- Persian Gulf
- Era
- Contemporary
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Before and after
Text from the Wikipedia article Operation Morvarid, CC BY-SA 4.0