The Epic of Khorramshahr - Iran '82
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Between the Iran-Iraq border and the refinery city of Abadan, is the small port city of Khorramshahr. When Iraq invaded in 1980, it was a minor objective on the way to Abadan which was expected to be abandoned. Instead a small force of Iranian irregulars and soldiers cut off fought street by street for the city for a month.
After the siege of Abadan was lifted, the Iranians started to move on Khorramshahr to liberate it, and much like the first battle, they went street by street over a month. The two battles, known in military circles in Iran as "The Epic of Khorramshahr" claimed the lives of upwards of 60,000 men and thousands of tanks, cars, planes and helicopters. At the 1986 census, the population of the city remained at 0 and it is only in recent years that the city has once again begun to recover and grow.
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You know it's old footage when you don't see a single AK but a lot of G-3s
AK is older ? Prototype Made in 1946
Iran bought a lot of German tech before and during the war
@@StayBasedJesus for Iran
@@StayBasedJesus He's not saying that the G3 is older, it's just that it can tell you that it's from that period, don't be a gun nut
Perhaps because it was a war between two rich nation states, not a bunch of insurgents desperate to fight off a imperialist invader.
@@StayBasedJesus
Iranians Also Used MP40 , STG , Thompson and M1 Garand too and Mauser used to be Sniper Riffle
Poison gas ✅
Trenches. ✅
Largely useless war ✅
Mostly Unchanging frontlines ✅
Continuous conflict spanning years✅
Supposed to be a 5 minute adventure ✅
Reminds me of something
All quiet on the Middle East
Just another proxy war during the cold war
Obviously this reminds me of Vietnam
Donbass Boi
“All quiet on the Eastern front” as well.
The armourer was like: "A helmet and a G3 is enough to win the war"
And some suicidal bravery also goes a long way
And RPGs, a lot of them; During this war, the Iranian military relied on the RPG, recoilless rifles & Chinese mlrs. During this war, the Iranians had the Chinese / North Korean Type-59 tanks while the Iraqis were fielding the T-72. So, in terms of hardware, the Iraqi were ahead. But, if you love your country as much as the Irani people did, you are the tank.
@walangchahangyelingden8252 The Iranians also had Chieftains, Centurion and an assertion of other western equipment
You have to hand it to them their air force did alot despite its limitations
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 The famous H3 airstrike
For those commenting on the poorly trained nature of the Iranian soldiers, this war took place immediately in the wake of the '79 revolution that overthrew the Shah.
The vast majority of the higher level military leadership was driven into exile or killed during the aftermath of the revolution. Basically this meant that the military of Iran ended consisting of large numbers of poorly trained conscripts and volunteers.
Definitely an interesting shift considering that before the revolution the Iranian armed forces were some of the most advanced in the region.
Hope some of y'all find this interesting, خدا حافظ.
Is the reason they were considered the most advanced in the region because the Shah was mostly supplied by western militarys as opposed to Saddam who was supplied by the Soviet Union?
@Truppführer_Erika any competent officers in the Iranian military at this stage where either dead in prison or they had fled west
@@Ostalgie658 Saddam tried doing what Nasser of Egypt did previously; playing back and forth between east and west, eventually alienating both.
My dad and two of my uncles actually fought in khoramshar and they have stories to tell.
When war broke out and the attack on khoramshar happened there was this elite unit of navy commandos(sas trained) that went straight to khoramshar and they basically hold the city of for 24 days and those alone the few elite parts of the military that were still functioning like havanirooz(air force) kept the fight going until everybody caught up with the war.
Search houshang samadi. He was the commander of that unit.
True unknown heros.
@@Ostalgie658 Largely so. Not only did they aquire western equipment, they also trained extensively with American and European forces.
I left my pregnant wife in car to watch this as soon as I saw notification she can drive herself to hospital.
Congratulation to your expanding family and condolences to your impending divorce.
@@foolsgold9993 already feeling 50% lighter
@@shivanshna7618 that's nice to hear, here's some advice: you shouldn't have married her in the first place
@@paleoph6168 lol i was joking i am not married
@@shivanshna7618 Ya why do people think everything is serious
This war was basically WW1 but with RPGs, Helicopters, and jet planes.
and tanks, basically ukraine right now or what if ww2 was fought with a ww1 mindset completely
@@deathsquadron3311 Iran-Iraq war and now Ukraine war is pretty much a taste of WWIII
When both sides can pull up a 'blitzkrieg' of mechanized warfare, neither can and will be stuck in the trenches once more.
@@kennedytheretard975GWOT was WWIII
Because all of our great generals got murdered by the Islamic regime
What do you mean why world war 1?
The iran-iraq war is such an interesting conflict that often gets overlooked, in some aspects its like ww1 with the trenches, chemical weapons, human wave attacks and the heavy use of artillery but at the same time its set in the middle east, and theres modern weaponry and vehicles such as T-62s, T-72s, Chieftains, fighter jets and helicopters such as the mig-25, the f-4, f-14 tomcat, mi-24 hind and ah-1
There were also Tu-16 and Tu-22 bombers dropping 9000kg bombs, scud missiles, amphibious commandos and even modern naval warfare(the tanker war)
The fighting in the air was very fascinating. First chopper vs chopper fights, Tomcat aces, asymmetrical warfare with both sides sporting modern weaponry at the time and complete contrast of tactics between the beginning and end of the war.
Reading sources in their original language showcases how they weren't aware they were the initial powder keg of the middle eastern proxy war btween the Saudi-Isrealis and Iranians. Yomkipur was just an official prelude.
@@ManLikeKitch a very interesting thing i read is that iraqi bombers used fab 9000 bombs so much they not only had to start making their own version but they somehow developed a very accurate toss bombing technique to launch their bombs from standoff distances, by the end of the war the iraqi army was very experienced (and battered) and while i do know that their massive buildup started around the end of iran iraq in preparation for the invasion of kuwait I still think that they could have put up a serious fight if they were only facing the saudis and not the us led coalition
The tactics again got very interesting too, an example is the trap in the fish lake, an iranian offensive operation (karbala 4 was its name iirc) started with amphibious commandos going through some marshes known as "fish lake", prior to this the iraqis had added much more water to these marshes, put a bunch of high voltage cables waiting to be activated and artillery was zeroed in essentially turning that area into an absolute death trap
@@nj828 Considering the Saudis made some nice chump change of contribution to Saddam's army, I would have doubted, but if they hadn't they could have been pumelled.
@@nj828 From what I read on the Iranian side, command was aware of this and didn't cancel the operations. Same when their other amphibious assault teams were captured and just chained underwater to die like some morbid scooby doo episode. 'Acceptable Losses', likely.
If there's one constant in life it is that someone, somewhere, has an MG-42 in their hands.
MG42, FAL and AK are prerequisites to any civil war
May be an MG3 but not really that different.
It’s an MG3 in the early 70’s Iran was supplied by Western nations. Primarily American and British weapons. They had a contract with West Germany and procured the G3 and the MG3.
The some of the G3 for Iran were manufactured in Iran. Obviously pre 1979.
MG-3 in this case. And no drum magazines like the germans had on the 42 for moving fast.
Also note all the G-3s issued and used.
It's MG3 and They are Marine Commondos of 2th Birgade Of Navy
45 Iranian Marines With Help of People of Khoramsher Saved the City From fall for the 70 day's
Amazing. An entire video and I only saw one soldier using the sights on his rifle.
I saw 3 and 1 trying to
Initial trained wave fell at the beginning and the locals and conscripts picked up the pieces, so yeah, they didn't know their asses from their faces.
Aiming is a western concept.
Fica la parado no meio da rua olhando pela mira, treino e guerra real é muito diferente, na guerra real tem alguem atirando de volta se você ficar parado mirando
@@Guido-Fawkes kkkkkkkk
Thank you for this video. My father and his family were in Khorramshahr when the invasion happened; grandfather did not make it out. You hear about the combat heroes all the time, as we should, but to be a civilian during this WWI-esque battle... Well that's nothing short of terrifying beyond imagination. I can't even begin to dream about what they had to do to survive in that warzone.
What happened in the City of Blood is nothing short of a testament to the will of the Iranian people at that time. No proper support from their own government because they purged anyone who was qualified to defend the country, and with no cavalry coming, the civilians and the soldiers already posted there managed to hold back the Iraqis again and again with minimal training and equipment. Even though it was the first battle of the war, I don't think it's that hyperbolic to say that it was the reason why the war failed for Saddam.
And yet this battle, and the war itself, is completely forgotten by or unknown to the world at large. I've been searching high and low for documentaries, resources, and general acknowledgment on this since forever. So again, thank you.
Hello, سلام,
There is a book in English called "Revolutionary Iran: A history of the Islamic Republic," by Michael Axworthy, it contains a chapter on the Iran-Iraq war. There is, perhaps, one paragraph on Khorramshahr.
Population of a city being at 0 is a chilling thought.
Pol pot moment
Is that what really happened?
@@skxlter5747 read the description
Pripyat moment
After the Warsaw Uprising the civilian population of the city was reduced from it's prewar 1 250 000 inhabitants to only around one thousand because of casualties sustained during the 5 year occupation, the uprising and the subsequent german deportations of the civilian populace.
Yes, you read that right, 1000 people who mostly lived in the rubble and had to hide from german demolition squads sent to burn down Warsaw even after the Uprising was over.
The Iran-Iraq war is one of the most under-looked military conflicts during the 1980's, followed by Israel's first Lebanon war, South Africa's border war, and the Sino-Vietnamese war, all four of which were overshadowed by the Soviet-Afghan war, the US invasions of Grenada and Panama, the Falklands war and Troubles in Northern Ireland.
the troubles was not a miilitary conflict
I agree those wars were overshadowed by the others you mentioned.
other underlooked conflicts are the basque conflict, the years of lead and the corsican conflict
@@GAMER123GAMING what was it then bruv?
@@dodgersfan7096 a race war
Unbelievable how badly trained these lads were.
purging almost any high officer before a major war is never a smart idea... ask Stalin for confirm
The average 12 year old of my people is more proficient with a rifle.
@@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 reminds me of african wars, 27884 fighters, 78827 rounds fired per gun every week and only 2-3 casualties per month because no one can hit someone else
They were recently called conscripts. The Iranian government in the early stages conscripted everyone they could to stop the Iraqi advance, since Iran's military was in chaos after most of the military leadership was purged following the 1979 revolution.
@Tony The war's over one million causalities say otherwise
badly trained for a conventional war but they did very well as a guerilla fighters ( they fought for one month and they were cutted from all sides )
my father was enlisted in the army exactly at 1982, he thanks god every day he wasn't on the ugly front lines. he was a good engineer he was assigned to be an engineer in the palaces of Saddam Hussein. he always tells me that out of fear from Saddam he used to sleep every night drunk out of his mind just to forget the fear. God bless our nation. and God help the Iranians.
yeah sure🤡
I know ur a kurd but why was ur father scared?
Cuz i met another kurd with his father working the same job as your father but In Dohuk and said that he saw saddam in person and never thought of him in the same way
Drunk?🤨
@@husseinoskovjino9398 saddam even executed generals for not taking 5 meters of Iran's land like ww1 what did you expect? naturally someone will fear for his life working close to a man like that
One of the greatest urban battles in history
hahaha thanks for laughing. and people believe it
@@kamikadze74 ?
@@shivanshna7618 hes Russian and laughing at other nation's Urban battles. They and the Germans have kinda set the bar for brutal urban warfare comically high.
@@jagd7102 oh
@@jagd7102 thanks for the explain the joke
If my dad hadn't come to the U.S to study, he would've fought in this war. I know several men who fought in this war and they said it was brutal. God bless these brave men.
Authors of these edits seemingly have an endless supply of no-name banger songs just laying around
The Stalingrad of the Iran Iraq war. broke the Iraqi army.
Man, I’ve never seen so much G3’s in one video! Some incredible combat footage I must say!
Not only G3s, also MG3s
Licensed perhaps. IIRC Iran still has the license from HK to produce G3.
They are civilians who are armed when the saddam started the invasion ,our army was purged and most of our qualified soldiers excecuted by two sides first side was mollas and khomeini supporters and the other side communist groups supported by soviet union (mojahedin khalgh)
I've heard my friend's dad say they hated the G3s because they were unreliable, they liked the AKs saying quote "most of the time we'd break before that thing"
The Epic of Khorramshahr is epic indeed
God bless the brave men who gave their lives to defend Iran 🇮🇷 🙌
🤡
For those who are saying the poor quality of training for iranians, just look up the H3 air strike on Iraq. It was unbelievable. The best air raid in history of aerial warfare.
The air force was definitely superior to the ground troopps
I have a Nepalese friend who has told me about what it was like living in Nepal during the Nepalese Civil War. It would be worth a video. It was a very dark time...
I am a Nepalese and it would be jolly if Major Samm made a video on the Nepalese Civil war. Riots, Terror attacks and Constant harassment by the Maoists in the country side. The darkest times of our modern history.
Is that the Maoist civil war? i also heard about it. it was very brutal
This raises more fighting spirit than some recruitment ads
Emma and his two moms disagree
@@Tonyx.yt. what?
@@shivanshna7618 it was an ad made by either the usmc or the army made back in 2019 and it was animated and told the story of a girl named Emma and her two moms and she winds up in the army with her moms there to see her graduate and wind up in military Intel or some shit
@@giovannicervantes2053 hahaha I saw that. I’m sure that’s convinced all the lesbians to go enlist
@@giovannicervantes2053 It was Army.
A reminder to those who bit&$ about poorly trained soldiers of iran and the use of child soldiers:
As wrong as they are, take some time to realize how great of a sacrifice these men made. Which one is harder to do and more praisable? To go and fight as a highly trained soldier of army or as an 18 years old boy who leaves his family, gets minimum equipment and training, and fights in the frontlines. Show some respect to men who stopped bullets with their hearts and tanks with their hands! Iraqis had everything world had to offer
Iraq at that time was in a unique position in its own way - they were armed with weapons from both NATO and Warsaw Pacts. Franco-Germany Roland air defense systems and Soviet systems, West German and East German trucks, Soviet, French, Brazilian and Yugoslav armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks of French, Soviet, Czechoslovak production and so on and so forth. Iran received support only from Syria (and then, rather, for the opportunity to spoil Iraq) and North Korea. Well, plus Iran-Contra, but also not from the great love of the United States.
Another Majorsamm masterpiece for a conflict long far away and mostly forgotten. Thank you samm keep well brother.
Im persian armenian, my two uncles served in iran-iraq war, thanks for sharing brother, much respect.
"City of blood"
🇮🇷❤️🇦🇲
This song is so ominous. Fits the footage like a glove. As always the good Major knows his tunes!
Thanks for covering a part of my country's recent history.
As always high quality👌
Thanks again.
You should really do one about the Great Toyota war were Chad beat the much more advanced Libyan army with pick up trucks with a K/D of 1 to 7,5
There is extremely scarce footage of that war and no known footage of the battle with the hinds
If there is sufficient footage and will, it could happen
@Tsoi Chad Chadians vs virgin Lybians
I mean it was Chadians with a HEAVY western sf presence.
Isn't there no footage of the Toyota war tho? I mean more power to you if you can find footage of it
Amazing you always do a phenomenal job on these historical events 👌🏼 💪🏼💪🏼
Iranians are tough for handling the G3 in full auto, I can imagine that’s a wild ride
Such an interesting selection of weapons and vehicles from this war, like the MG3 seen in this video, which is the most out of place gun I think I have ever seen in one of these videos.
It looks so much like the M.G. 42 the Iranians looks so less trained than the Germans in WW2 with to use to suppress an area.
@@jaybot303functionerror4 at first I thought it was an MG42 and I was wondering I did that soldier get that.
@@VALKORION3621 Yeah it basically is an MG42, it’s just the modernised version developed by West Germany. The German military still uses the MG3 today.
The weapons are perfectly what I would expect an Iranian in the late 70 through early 80’s to be armed with.
They had been using the G3 since at least the early 70’s so it makes sense if they procured one West German small arm they’re gonna procure one West German machine gun.
Agreed
the chad at 2:24 carrying the ammo belt to support his buddy
Great video as always! 👍
Nice to have you back!
Iran-Iraq War is one of the more interesting and forgotten conflicts of the Cold War. One of the last large scale conventional wars, really until recent events early this year.
The platforms best creator does it yet again. Keep up the good work samm!
That's another song for the playlist. Banger vid as always, Major
Those G3 battle rifle looks badass
Such a beautiful, overlooked rifle. I may be wrong, but they may have been locally produced G3s under license from HK. Iran still uses them today, mainly due to sanctions.
@@jal7852 You’re correct they are. The iranian variant is designated the G3A6, and Iran surprisingly manufactures it under licence
Bcs its in the hands of arab slayers
@@freshfrozen3035
They are all IRANIAINS and not arabs
Gotta love the full auto hip firing.
Would you ever consider a video on the oka crisis where a tribe of mohawk fought land developers to protect there ancestors burial grounds
Pls tell me they won
@@shivanshna7618 yes, the federal government stepped in and blocked future development of the area
@@shivanshna7618 they did
@@Barquivius good
@@shivanshna7618 yep the mohawk won the dispute
Most Excellent video. Thanks for posting
For anyone out there who wants a first hand account of some of the Iranian Basiji Soldiers at this time (filtered through the IRCG propaganda screens of course), and who happens to speak Persian, there's a series that famous inside Iran, produced by the 'Jihad TV Unit' [گروه تلویزیونی جهاد], called Ravayat-e Fath [روایت فتح]. Apparently some of the crew-members were killed during the shows production, covering Operation Karbala 5. For being blatant propaganda, it's surprisingly emotional seeing men (mostly kids) who have signed up to die in glorious(or more realistically ignominious) battle for their leader. It's also always interesting seeing a war filtered through the perspective of the society that's fighting it, a perspective that at time completely alien to that of the West.
Another marvelous video
It’s not propaganda. All of the footage is unedited and raw, and it’s made to show the reality of the front to the average viewer. But I agree it is a great source of footage
@@donkthedankee8595 I'm just kind of assuming something IRGC-produced might be a bit one sided, though as it was produced during war-time that's kind of a given... YMMV I suppose.
Your videos get me through my studying.
Good to have you back MajorSamm
Another excellent work
Everyone says G3 is for big men until someone in the mid-east shoots it in full auto mode and controls the recoil like they are playing with airsoft guns.
As an Iranian i was waiting for this, there are so many battles in Iran Iraq war that have cool aesthetics.
For sources you can look up "Revayate Fath" documentaries.
btw what is going on in your country. is it bad or is the media exaggerating?
@@milotura6828 media exaggeration if i know how the media works
@@axdde6428 are you Iranian?
@@milotura6828 everythin gets exaggerated for veiws and iran is an enemy so it gets exaggerated cuz of that
@@milotura6828
Yes I'm
Great work. As always
Thanks to MajorSamm, I was introduced to some great songs from Colonel Bagshot and others. Thank you!
0:42 Ooooh a 1957 Chevy (same car at 0:50 I think)
also lots of Czech/Polish OT-64 skots...weird
Great Vid as always man
Wow just checked it's polish copy of BTR never knew about it. Thanks sus 😳 guy
@@shivanshna7618 actually not quite, It was unrelated to the BTR, but they were built sort of as a middle finger to the USSR so that poland and czechoslovakia could at least have SOME non soviet designed junk in their army
(same story with the VZ58 rifle)
@@thesketchydude1315 non Soviet junk Lmao. I will search further on it hopefully wiki have some good knowledge
Iraq bought a few dozen OT-64s. Some arrived in Kuwait in 1990.
These Persian soldiers are still respected by our entire nation. God bless them !
Goh nakhor. Nesfe basij turk bud. Bego iranian.
You murdered them sending them out without training.
@@redking5788 Tell us you have no clue what you are talking about without telling us you have no clue what you are talking about.
@@redking5788 The iraqis gassed entire cities, sent air raids and missiles attacks on crowded cities. The regime is horrible but Saddam was worst
Not all of them were Persian
Beautiful video, well done
Thanks for introducing me to another great song!
viva irán viva iranian army .dorud bar sarbazan azize ma.
Respected Persian soldiers who were from people in the street and sacrificed themselves for their country with no money.
Major Samm never misses, alway puts up favourite Videos of mine
Reading up about this war is so surreal, it’s just insane to see how one of the deadliest and most destructive conflicts of the 20th century got forgotten about
Видео как всегда на высоте. Спасибо за твою работу и привет из морозной России! ❤❤❤
Damn these guys firing all over the place, can't imagine they hit much.
well, this is urban combat
and some kind of lure tactics. my father told me they did it to create a massive confusion
@@obamaspiegel4688 Ok 👍
As badly trained as a lot of these guys are the vast majority of combat with small arms is just firing in the direction you think the enemy is. Very few rounds actually hit anything. And that's been true for centuries.
That's what they teach in the "Allahu akhbar" school of combat marksmanship.
15,000 Iraqis died in the battle.
damn i love this channel
nice edit man
A song about falling showers showing a war were poison gas was used immensely is a great connection bro
Sigma Iran:
-No aim
-Full auto a 7.62x51mm
-Brrppp the shit out of whats in your field of vision
Soyjack Iraq:
-Chemical warfare
@@galisapal3103 noooo you can't send human waves at a chemical attack that's hecken sadist
Iranian soldier's:☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
@@christiankalinkina239*Child soldiers
@@galisapal3103During the war, a child soldier destroyed a bridge and maintained the position of the local forces with a suicide attack (this war).
Masterpiece. Music and video compatibility took me back to those times of Iran. Classic MajorSamm 10/10
Sigh. Another lazy Tuesday. *Major Samm releases new video* Thank you!
Those House walls sure have seen a lot of death, and blood spilled on them..
my moms family fled and ended up squatting in tehran for some years before leaving the country. life is better.
Excellent video. It's not easy to get films where Iranian MG3s and G3s are in action and this video is one of the rare ones out there which contains the said firearms and operated by the aforementioned user.
Wow men ,such a good video
Loved the song! This is one of the most interesting wars of our time, I wish people knew more about it. Pointless, brutal and a crime in every sense of the word. Child soldiers, human waves, "war of the cities", etc. The air battles were also fascinating, let alone the extensive use of the F-14's.
Child soldiers have been the norm in most wars. The average fighter through history has usually been between 15/16 and 40. This war is in no way unusual in that regard. Its just liberals who keep complaining. The truth is weapons are usually designed to be used by anyone from 14 and up. And thing is teens today mature physically faster than in the past. This is all made up by liberals looking for a cause to rant about.Even 40 years ago this was a nonissue.On a galactic scale does it really matter? No. How we fight our wars is irrelevant it only matters to us because of made up rules that are in no way laws of nature just social constructs.
Best Heckler and Koch commercial 😂 now I am tempted to get a G3😂
I'm From Iran And 2 years I lived With G3 Druing the Military Service in Navy
Very Heavy And Powerful Riffle but always you should it clean
@@OshinAttari why does Iran still use g3s and not something like AKs, do you know?
@@brokenpotato438
Because Those G3s Riffles Were Proudact of Iran and Iran Had Factory of HK and Could Proudact Many Types of HK Riffles
Also Iran and Soviet Union Were Bloody Enemies and Iran Never Wanted to use Weapons of Soviet Union !!!!
@@brokenpotato438 old guns from the Germans when Iran was nato aligned, they still use them now because of sanctions
"Mahmad, you were not there to see the liberation of the city, the blood of our brothers wasn't spilled in vain..."
"Oh god, where is Jahan Ara? Where is the light of our eyes...?"
great video, as always makes me wonder where did you get such a great music taste
Late night majorsamm video is a true pleasure.
My dad was 55th airborne ❤️
He was a forward observer in Khorramshahr
Both artesh and sepah fought hand in hand for the recapture of the city, at the command of shaheed sayyad shirazi. Bani sadr’s incompetence led to the fall of the city in the first place
@@donkthedankee8595 sepah made Iran look bad w there untrained men, very unprofessional unlike the artesh
@@freshfrozen3035 Actually sepah was one of the few main branches of the military after the revolution apart from the artesh that underwent professional military training. Shaheed Mahmoud Kaveh which was the commander of the 155th IRGC Shohada special forces brigade was one of the commanders responsible for the liberation of Iranian Kurdistan, such as in the saqqez, bukan and alvatan regions, and also the dreaded Doleto prison which was used to hold conscripts and other Iranian soldiers for torture by the separatists. Artesh however struggled severely in the north during the beginning of the war, being ambushed by Komala insurgents frequently, so sepah had to intervene and train its troops for mountain and irregular warfare to hunt down Komala hideouts in the mountains. There is a very great movie depicting the Kurdistan insurgency with an actor portraying the likeness of Shaheed Mahmoud Kaveh, the movie is called "Shoore Shirin". Don't worry, both the Artesh and Sepah are shown in the movie
Sadly 55th airborne have been deglected nowadays. They still have the same equipment they had 40 years ago besides vests
@@freshfrozen3035 How can a arteshi division be full of IRGC?
I got addicted to your videos. Love your work! Can you do the First Gulf War edit with "Seasons in the Abyss" as a soundtrack? That'd be awesome!!
Another masterpiece.
Long live Iran 🇮🇷
13,000 Iranian military officers were executed after the revolution which destroyed the Iranian military right before this war. which is why these lads are not trained at all. just a bunch of volunteers.
WTF i subbed, and get notifications, and yet i still somehow missed this one!
Nice edit as always, but i have to say that iranian music of this conflict (noha) was the hardest and craiziest thing i ever listened... There were songs to prepare soldiers psycologically to run through no mans land to clean It of mines or to lead frontal assaults.
The first Gulf war is a very interesting topic, not only because it was literally like the First World War, a battle of human numbers, but also because of its importance for Iran.
Iran lost between 700k and 1 million soldiers, and had hundreds of thousands of injured, meaning that the government had to give females access to education in order to replace the fallen men.
Without the war, Iran‘s education system probably would have become the one of Pakistan (at least in regards to female education).
The only question which we will never be able to answer is: who won?
It’s ironic how Iran had an army that would of curb stomped the Iraqis within a matter of weeks just a few years before the war broke out
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 Under the Shah the Iranian Army was the strongest in the region, stronger then Turkey and Pakistan combined. Hell, it was stronger then most minor western powers. After the revolution experienced military leadership either fled abroad or were purged, and so the Army was disorganised. Also a lot of units with experience were disbanded and unit officers replaced by political officer. Also sanctions damaged Iran and the weapry they had, overall the Iranian Army was disorganised and badly-led for it’s country’s size and the military they had. If this war had happened under the Shah without the revolution all of Iraq would’ve been gone within a matter of months,
@@russkayaimperiya4918sure belive in that.
@@russkayaimperiya4918are you really russian
This war is such a horrific calamity but also a Twilight Zone of the bizarre. The pilots of Rafsanjani, Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, defected to Iraq with his private jet… So the Iraqis slapped Exocets on it and hunted Iranian tankers in the Persian Gulf with it.
On a more dour note, the Iranians throughout the war made use of up to 300,000 child soldiers, possibly more. They were usually issued grenades alone- only the very skilled got a gun. An Iraqi officer remembered having to kick his sobbing 18-19 year old conscripts and drag them back to their Dushkas to mow down wave after wave of those boys.
Pierre Razoux talks about it in his book, named after the war. You might find it interesting. Glad you finally covered this man, you’re one of the few creators I trust to do so.
Lol they used that same jet to almost hit the New Jersey with an exorcet
300,000 child soldiers? What a ridiculous number. Iran's total troop force was 110,000-215,000 soldiers at the start of the war.
City of Blood ≈
Villa heroica,noble y Leal.
Great video once again. Where do you get the footage for all of your videos?
Major Samm, thank you for posting this. However, the footages relates to 1980 at the beginning of the Iraqi invasion where the Iraqi Army had laid siege to the city and the Iranian defenders which was a rag tag force made up of the Army, Gendarmeri ( rural police) and the newly formed but hardly organised Revolutionary Guard Crops ( Pasdaran) and Citizen volunteers ( the Basij force had not yet been created) . Iranians were to lose the city but were able to regain it once again in 1982 on the back of the operation Beitol Moghadas where the Iraqi Army was almost completely kicked out of the iranian territory. The Liberation of Khoramshahr was Saddam Army's biggest single defeat of the entire war with the Iraqi Army losing up 40K killed and wounded and thousends of POWs including many high ranking officers. The entire 92 Armoured Division of the Iraqi Army was destroyed and it was not to be formed again for the rest of the War. When asked by a French journalist which was the most difficult year of the War, Saddam replied 1982 and the defeat at Khoramshar. The western weaponry you see used by the iranian Soldiers is the testement to the year of the footage (1980) as in the opening year of the war the Irainan Army was mainly Western Equipped hence G3s and MG3. If this footage was from 1982 you would have seen mainly AKs and KPMs. There are some clips on you tube of 1982 liberation of Khoramshar and you can clearly see the difference in terms of equipment and organisation.
Apart from the obvious they deserve respect, just for the fact that they use G3 on automatic mode. My God the kicking. almost an impossible task to hit the target.
I'm curious, do you have a playlist or something? The vids are great but honestly the song choice is perfect and they are my exact taste, found so many new songs just from whats on the channel. PS ordered an Africa Addio tshirt a few days ago looking forward to receiving it
Hey MajorSamm where do you find all the documentaries that you are using for your videos ? they seem really interesting
Ps: you do a very good job
A real meat grinder that war was, truly a meat grinder.
فقد خسرت خالي بي هجوم المحمره سود الله وجهك صدام سنت 1982
👍 good job major
proud of you Guys!!
Khoramshahr was saved by the will of brave men and women...
...but it was never repaired.
I knew _why_ the Iran-Iraq war happened but didn't know much about the actual conflict itself. Always wondered why it took 8 years and ended in a stalemate - after seeing the tactics in this, I think I know.
Saddam had A Lot Of Sponsor From west and east and he continue to war
Tasteful as always!
I was just jamming out to your awesome video: People Power Philippines
Then this pops up! Hell yah!
Hi Sam, can you do a video about the Turkish coup d'état of 1980, i think it may be a good choice because that coup really changed both Türkiye's and the middle easts ties.