An estimated seven to ten thousand of the Khomeini regime's various forces were routed in the Operation pearl. Several Guards Corps(GC) units were completely destroyed or lost their combat capabilities, as over 5,000 Guards were killed. The 59th Muslim-bin-Aqil Brigade, one of the key units dispatched to Iraq, was practically destroyed. The GC Command withdrew what was left of this brigade's troops from the battlefield and replaced them with the 100th Ansar-al-Rasoul Brigade.
There is information from inside Iran that the Guards Corps sent a confidential
note on March 19 to the Office of Khamenei, Commander-in-Chief of the regime's
Armed Forces. The note contained a list of 86 Guards killed in clashes with
the Mojahedin, with a postscript that an updated list would be sent after
identification was completed and a final list prepared. The note mentioned
that the casualties pertained to the GC 59th Muslim-bin-Aqil and 39th Nabi-Akram
Brigades.
The Guards Corps' casualties were so heavy that the Khomeini regime was compelled to reinstate the systems used during the Iran-Iraq war to evacuate and transfer dead and wounded. These systems had been inoperative since the1988 ceasefire. The regime also readied special locations and hospitals for the wounded in Tehran, Oroumieh (northwest Iran), Kermanshah (west) and Ahwaz (southwest).
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