Beginning at 1:30 am local time on April 1, thousands of the Khomeini regime's Guards in the border region of Qasr-Shirin launched a major four pronged offensive. Using light and heavy weaponry, including heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers, they attacked positions of the National Liberation Army of Iran on the Morvarid Heights, Aqdagh-Saghir Heights and north of Khanaqin. The offensive was directed from Ramazan Garrison by the Guards Corps Commander-in-Chief, Mohsen Reza'i.
At
the outset of the Guards Corps' offensive, NLA combatants countered, blocking
the route of the Guards' advance. On the Aqdagh-Saghir Heights alone, 300
Guards were killed and a large amount of equipment left on the battlefield.
This offensive, carried out by the 32nd Ansar-al-Hossein, 39th Nabi Akram, 59th Muslim-bin-Aqil and 100th Ansar-al-Rasoul Brigades was repelled after an 18-hour battle. At least 1,500 Guards were killed and six captured by the NLA units. According to these captives, several GC battalions were completely destroyed in these clashes and dozens of their vehicles demolished. Many of the enemy dead had GC ID cards.
In the course of this battle, 10 NLA combatants were killed and 17 wounded, three seriously.
On April 2, NLA units captured two critical heights north of Khanaqin used by the Khomeini regime's Guards to shell and launch attacks against NLA positions.
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