If you remember, we talked about the developments of battlefields since the beginning of the second year of the imposed war corresponding with the 4th quarter of 1981.

Concurrent with foiling of the plots of the enemies of the Islamic Revolution inside and outside Iran, certain operations were designed for pushing the Iraqi Baathist army out of the occupied regions. The first operation named Samen al-A’imma was staged successfully and it broke the siege of the strategic city of Abadan. Two months later, Tariq al-Quds operation began for liberating Bostan city, the surrounding villages and Allaho-Akbar hills. While the Iraqi regime and its western and eastern supporters were scared of a change of equations in battlefields and the victories of the Iranian forces, the third operation titled Fat’h al-Mobin shattered the Iraqi Baathist army in late March 1982 and destroyed the major part of Saddam's war machine. In this operation, 25 thousand Baathist forces were killed or injured and over 15 thousand were taken captive. On the whole, prior to the great Bayt ul-Moqaddas operation, the major part of the enemy’s forces and equipment were destroyed and much equipment was taken as booties. Saddam’s supporters dispatched various types of financial and military aid to Iraq to stop the successive defeats of the dictatorial regime in Baghdad. The Soviet Union handed over a large number of T72 tanks and jetfighters to Iraq. Then West Germany and Italy sent an emergency Milan infrared anti-aircraft missile and other weapons to support Saddam. Kuwaiti, Saudi and other oil-rich regimes of the Persian Gulf, continued their aids and provided Saddam with the petro-dollars of their nations, plunged in the illusion of preventing Iran from launching a new and massive movement on the fronts. 

But the decisive resolve of the people and officials of the Islamic Republic was to drive the occupiers out of Iran, and there was no doubt that the Basij forces, after gaining high morale in Fat’h al-Mobin operation, would engage in new operations and create epics to put an end to the occupation of Iran. In the political arena, supporters of Saddam also pushed for what they called "peace" in order to reverse the facts of the imposed war. The successive defeats and destruction of forces and facilities of the Iraqi army shattered Saddam's will and ability to further pursue his nefarious goals. Saddam’s supporters who were unable to prevent the successive defeats of the Iraqi army tried to find an exit way by sending him advanced weapons. Those who believed that Samen al-A'imma and Tariq al-Quds operations couldn't be repeated by Iran, were petrified in the face of Fat’h al- Mobin operation. The dictator of the Egyptian regime, Hosni Mubarak, called on the US and westerners to do something against Iran. The Moroccan king Hassan and Sudanese dictator Ja’far Nomeiri tried to save Saddam. Thus Saddam’s supporters intended to raise hue and cry to prevent the great Bayt ul-Moqaddas operation for liberating Khorramshahr port city. The claim of peace by Saddam's supporters came up when a large part of the Islamic Republic's territory, including the cities of Naftshahr, Sumar, Qasr-e Shirin, Mehran, Hoveizeh and Khoramshahr, were under the enemy's occupation and Iraq tried to maintain its position.

As the military and financial aids were poured to Iraq, efforts for returning Egypt to the Arab world and heaping of supports for Saddam along with readiness to confront unexpected developments in Iraq and the region were placed on the agenda of Saddam's accomplices in the west and the east. The Egyptian defense minister Abu Ghazaleh called on the US to take required measures for preventing probable results of Iran's victories against Iraq. The secretary general of the organization of Islamic conference, Habib Shatti, also stated that the situation in West Asia had reached a very serious and dangerous phase. As the Iraq-Iran war was going through new developments, the ties between the Arab regimes and the fake Zionist regime of Israel entered a new phase with the Zionist regime’s adoption of offensive policies. Thus, in line with the previous commitments of Egypt and Israel in the Camp David Accords, the fake Israeli regime had been obliged to gradually return the Egyptian territory in Sinai Peninsula which was under the occupation of the regime. The situation in the region was exploited by the Zionist regime in view of the victories of Iran, which worried the US, the west and the regional Arab Sheikhdoms and placed Iran at the focus of attention. Nevertheless, the Zionists were concerned about the developments in the Islamic Republic and the Iran-Iraq war. They feared the collapse of the eastern wall of the Arabs which placed itself in the center like a castle. Based on this, since the beginning of 1982, certain moves started by the fabricated Zionist regime officials. In assessing these moves, Yasser Arafat said: before handing over of Sinai desert to Egypt, Israel’s attack on south Lebanon will start.

The humiliating atmosphere dominating the Arab world, after their successive failures against the Zionist regime, ultimately led them to support Saddam during the imposed war against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 In a general assessment, the Zionist regime evaluated the trend of developments in the 1980s as detrimental to itself, because the puppet regime of Iran, as Israel’s strategic ally, was overthrown with the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic system had set campaign against the Israeli regime as its strategic slogan. Naturally, the effects of this political earthquake were not hidden from the eyes of the Zionists in the region especially in Lebanon. For this reason, Israel’s concern and the probable acts of the Zionists especially on the Lebanese scene were not predictable. By attacking Lebanon, the Zionist regime hoped to provide part of its security on the northern borders by destroying the bases of Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon and weakening the role of Syria in Lebanon. The fact of the matter is that the usurper Israeli regime would never think of losing a strategic partner like the Shah of Iran who was a poodle in the hand of the US and would always dance to the tune of his masters in Washington and Tel Aviv.

RM/SS