On March 13, two flights landed at Ramazan Garrison in Kermanshah. Rafsanjani, accompanied by the Head of Khamenei's Office, Mohammad-Ali Golpayegan, and a large number of GC commanders, had come to personally oversee the operation to occupy Iraqi soil and attack NLA bases.
At 9:30 am on Thursday, March 14, after four days of fighting, combatants of the National Liberation Army of Iran crushed the Khomeini regime's conspiracy to encircle Fort Hanif. In the early hours of that morning, NLA units left Fort Hanif and advanced toward enemy positions.
Around
mid-day on Friday, March 15, several units took up positions around the
town of Jalula, 30 kms from the Iran-Iraq border, in continuation of their
24-hour advance. Fighting continued to rage at the entrance to the town
of Kifri. The mullahs' agents deployed a large number of Katyusha multiple
rocket launchers and various types of mortars. Five Mojahedin combatants
were killed in these clashes and 20 more wounded. The enemy's losses are
estimated at more than 500.
The regime's agents constantly radioed their command headquarters in the west Iranian town of Saqqez for help and reinforcements. Rafsanjani forbade any announcements of the names of those killed to prevent revelation of regime's intervention in Iraq.
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