Photos Iran-Iraq War

[BravoZulu]

USS Chandler rescuing the crew from the Cypriot-flagged oil tanker Pivot after it was attacked and set ablaze by RPGs fired from Iranian Boghammar speedboats, 12 Dec. 1987

USS Chandler (DDG-996) spent three and one-half months assigned to the Middle East Force in the Arabian Gulf at the height of the Iran-Iraq war. During this time, she served as the flagship for COMDESRON 23 and supported several US flagged tanker convoys, as part of the [Operation Earnest Will] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will). Chandler and HSL-33 Det. 6 received the Navy Humanitarian Service Medal for the December 1987 rescue of 41 crew members of the burning Cypriot supertanker Pivot, a victim of an Iranian attack.

By 1984, the land war was at a stalemate with little or no gains for either side. In an effort to break the impasse, both countries turned the conflict up a notch and began attacking each other’s economic interests. In the beginning, the attacks were limited to seaports and oil facilities, but they soon began targeting shipping, particularly oil tankers that sailed to and from loading terminals in the Gulf. This new phase became known as the “Tanker War” and by the time it ended four years later, over 400 ships, mostly oil tankers, had been sunk or damaged and hundreds of sailors had been killed or injured.

It was no secret that the rich Gulf Arab countries, were helping fund Iraq’s war machines. Since Iran could not disrupt all Iraqi oil exports, particularly the oil that was sent overland by pipeline and tanker truck to Turkey and Jordan, the Iranians went after Iraq’s two key allies, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. This meant that all oil tankers entering the Gulf destined to either of those two countries were potential targets. After the U.S. agreed to reflag 11 Kuwaiti super tankers, the Iranian navy began attacking all maritime ships going to Arab ports regardless of the cargo.

 

[droopy]

That helo, is it a SH-2 ?

 

[Fish&Chips]

I'd say yes, it is a Seasprite.

 

[ao_sepia]

Hassan Jangju, 13, a Basiji fighter, advances towards the front line in the border marshes of southern Iran in 1980

iranian less all things in front line!
less weapons some use k-98,i saw old pic some used m-1 garands!
less military unifroms some use local or civil uinfrom!
less militaris some used older and child 13 years old!

 

[Talvisota]

Iranian Green Berets with MG3.

Iranian F-14 Tomcats

Street fighting during battle of khorramashahr, a battle where Iranian managed to stop Iraqi advance

Iranian special forces defending the town

Iraqi army BTR-50

Iranian D-20 firing

 

[muck]

The pictures of those dead child soldiers with the ajatollah's face on their guns are perhaps the most unsettling of them all. The Iraqis attacked Iran and used weapons of mass destruction, yet still you're almost tempted to believe they were the good guys.

 

[Chazman]

The pictures of those dead child soldiers with the ajatollah's face on their guns are perhaps the most unsettling of them all. The Iraqis attacked Iran and used weapons of mass destruction, yet still you're almost tempted to believe they were the good guys.

I feel the same. What kind of government willingly sends their own children to certain slaughter?

 

[HisRoyalHighness]

I feel the same. What kind of government willingly sends their own children to certain slaughter?

One that has a warped view of a battle waged exactly 1,300 years ago from when the Iraqis invaded.

 

[BravoZulu]

US Marines inspects a ZU-23-2 anti aircraft gun on board the Iranian oil platform "Sassan" captured as part of Operation Praying Mantis, a retaliation strike following an incident where the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) struck an Iranian type M-08 naval mine; Persian Gulf, April 18th 1988

 

[BravoZulu]

Iranian F-4 Phantom gunsight image of an Iraqi Su-22

 

[berkut76]

Iranian F-4 Phantom gunsight image of an Iraqi Su-22

Wow, especially considering that SU-17/22 is a bomber aircraft. This would have made one heck of a kill.

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Iranian F-4 Phantom gunsight image of an Iraqi Su-22

Any indication of a hit on the Su-22??

 

[BravoZulu]

Any indication of a hit on the Su-22??

No mate, nothing I found to indicate the result but I'm willing to put money on the Su-22 going down for the count!

 

[BravoZulu]

Iranian F-4 destroyed 22 September 1980

 

[BravoZulu]

Iranian soldier with a copy of US M17A2 gas mask equipped with a MG3 during an Iraqi gas attack Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988

 

[Deleted member 11302]

Fourty years and exactly one day ago the Iran-Iraq war began by an air-assault by Iraq's air force on Iranian air bases and the Mehrabad international airport. Here you have some crazy footage of the Iranian counter-assault. Iranian Phantoms attacking Iraqi air bases and other ground installations. Note the shadow of the Phantoms indicating their altitude, credit for posting this footage goes to Babak Taghvaee on Twitter:

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[Otago]

A few photographs of Iranian soldiers wearing British Mk.IV helmets.

 

[ao_sepia]

100% had iranian pics,i call this thread is iranian's war!

 

[Otago]

OK, to break the Iranian log-jam ... Sudanese contingent to Iraq

 

[BravoZulu]

Iranian MG 3 gunner wearing a gas mask against Iraqi chemical attacks