Iran’s armed forces are holding military parades across the country on the first day of Sacred Defense Week, which marks an eight-year war of aggression on Iran by then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.
Saturday, September 21, 2024 09:22
Iran is marking the 42th anniversary of the liberation of the southwestern city of Khorramshahr from forces of the ex-Iraqi dictator’s regime in the course of the eight-year war imposed on the Islamic Republic in 1980s. Iranian forces recaptured the strategic port city during landmark operation code-named Beit ol-Moqaddas in 1982, putting an end to over 500 days of the Iraqi occupation.
Friday, May 24, 2024 08:55
Iranian Armed Forces hold military parades across the country and in the Persian Gulf waters to mark the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of the 1980-88 Iraq-imposed war.
Thursday, September 22, 2022 07:14
On April 10, 1988, Saddam Hussein's warplanes unleashed chemical attacks on the Iranian city of Marivan, Kurdistan. Many civilians were killed and injured. Thirty-three years later, some victims are still suffering from the physical and psychological consequences of those attacks.
Friday, April 09, 2021 10:58
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:19
Speaking at a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani said the Iranian nation has throughout its history recorded two sacred defenses; one against the 1980s Iraq-imposed war, and the other against the economic war during the era of Trumpism, and it has emerged victorious in both cases.
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 12:03
Iranian Armed Forces have begun holding military parades across the country, including in the Persian Gulf, at the start of the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of the 1980-88 Iraq-imposed war.
Sunday, September 22, 2019 09:12
Wednesday, April 03, 2019 02:32