Operation Revenge or Operation Entegham (

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: عملیات انتقام) was an operation during the

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for nearly eight years, unti ...

, which was launched by the

Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF; ) is the air force, aviation branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army. The present air force was created when the Imperial Iranian Air Force was renamed in 1979 following the Iranian Revoluti ...

on 22 September 1980. The commencement of the operation was about 2 hours after the formal outbreak of the Iran–Iraq War which was started by the attacks of Iraqi forces. In the operation, 8 Iranian fighter jets bombed 2 Iraqi military bases. In the operation, two wings (air groups) by the name of "Alborz" and "Alfard" from the 3rd fighter base of

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and the 6th fighter base of

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were involved in the battle against Iraqi forces. The Iranian pilot Colonel

Javad Fakoori Javad Fakouri (; 3 January 1936 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian prominent military figure who served as the 4th defence minister of Iran in September 1980 to August 1981. Career Fakoori was a commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air F ...

was the commander of the

, and swiftly announced an emergency after the initial Iraqi attacks and recalled all senior commanders of Nahaja ( IRIAF) to Tehran; he declared in a formal meeting the necessity of a decisive/fast response to the attacks. During the operation, the first wing of Iranian fighter bases - Alborz base - flew at 16:30 and bombed Sho'aibiyeh air (military) base which is located in

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; afterwards another wing (Alfard) flew at 17:25 and bombed Kut air base in

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. During this operation (beside

Operation Kaman 99 Operation Alborz (), more commonly known by the code-name Operation Kaman 99 (),"Kaman" (, meaning "bow"), is a reference to the legendary figure Arash the Archer, and 99 is a reference to the 99 pages of the plan of the operation. Se/ref> was ...

), Iraqi economic/military centers were hit by 140 Iranian fighter planes.

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