| Battle of Paveh | |||||||
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| Part of 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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 Komala | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Valiollah Fallahi Mostafa Chamran (WIA) Asghar Vesali |
Foad Mostafa Soltani | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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~ 280 IRGC Forces 20 Gendarmerie Soldiers Few Bell AH-1 Cobra Helicopters and F-4 Jets | About 2000 Men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| More than 150 IRGC forces were killed or injured and several gendarmerie forces were killed. A jet with two pilots and a transport helicopter crashed with a number of injured and the pilot. | Almost 400 Killed | ||||||
Battle of Paveh is a battle during the Kurdish rebellion of 1979 in iran lasting from august 14th 1979 to august 19th 1979. During in this battle, thousands of Kurdish Parties including komala and KDPI attacked the city of Paveh and attempted to occupy the city. On the other hand, Several hundreds of Gendarmerie, Army, and IRGC defended the city, and to strengthen the defense of the city, around eighty members of the IRGC under the command of Asghar Vesali joined the defenders.
Until the 27th of August, the superiority was with the Kurdish parties and they were able to capture more or less all the city except the gendarmerie post and the IRGC barracks. After the efforts of Valiollah Fallahi, the commander of the ground forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, and Mostafa Chamran, the representative of the interim government, to protect the city, finally, with the order of Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Republic, the helicopters of Havaniroz, under the command of Ahmad Keshvari, were able to break the siege of Paveh and the areas Take back what was captured
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edit[[Category:Iranian Kurdistan]] [[Category:Conflicts in 1979]] [[Category:1979 in Iran]] [[Category:Iranian Revolution]] [[Category:Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan politicians]] [[Category:1979 revolution of iran]] [[Category:Iran in 1979]]