Khomeini's Air Corps helicopters scurried to drop new forces, but they were immediately ambushed from various ridges.
At 9:20 am, Thursday, as the fighting was winding down, one of the enemy's frontline positions reported the deaths of Guards dispatched to the region from the northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran, as well as the death or injury of a large number of Guards and commanders from the Nabi-A kram brigade.
The ninth major confrontation consisted of six independent ambushes. Six NLA brigades carried out the ambushes as they withdrew from Kermanshah, Islamabad, and Kerend back to their bases on the border. The operations inflicted a total of 950 deaths on Khomeini's Guards and their commanders.
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