Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 15, 1988

I woke up in the morning. After the morning prayer, I got the news from American and English radios. Insidiously, they want to introduce the initiative in the hands of Iraq and do not say anything about the victories of the front. With the lever of war, the cities want to show Iraq as the owner of the initiative. They have launched a clever psychological war, but they will regret and be ashamed.

Last night, after consulting with the IRGC commanders, we decided to call the operation Wal-Fajr 10 and announce it tomorrow. Let's wait today to be sure. We went to the heights. The sound of the balls is loud. They came forward from the camp and gave the latest developments. The Iraqis have lost their balance and disintegrated. Surprise or the inability to prevent an attack is significant if the enemy is not surprised.

Our losses in this operation are low. So far, we have killed less than a hundred people. The interesting thing about this operation is that even though the heavy transport of military forces has been noticeable on the roads of Kurdistan for more than a month, Iraq has not been able to understand the reality and it is more interesting if it is assumed that it understood and could not do anything.

In the diary notes, I have mentioned this operation in order to protect the information. It has been about two months since I approved it, and preparations and transfer of forces have been done quickly.

The rearmost section was engineering, which progressed slowly due to being mountainous and snow and rain, and is still behind, and last night the main issue was to take the embankment facilities in front of the troops.

In the evening, we were ready to leave for Tehran. Mehdi arrived. Ansari, the Air Force Commander, had gone to Maut area. He gave a brief report and went to the front line with Mr. Rahmani. He said Yasir is also with Lashkar. I told him to emphasize that he should call his mother, who has not heard from her for some time.

On the way, we visited the defense helicopters to appreciate the efforts of Airmen. We reached Sanandaj near the evening. Mr. Sanjaghi's opinion was that, due to security precautions, I should stay the night and not continue the journey; I did not accept We reached Saqez at nine o'clock in the evening. We entered the governor's guest house. The governor is worried about the war between the cities. Turpentine has been attacked twice. People don't stay in the city for a long time.

Iraq has done a lot of mischief today and has fired a number of missiles at Tehran and bombed several cities. The commander of the Saqqez Corps and the deputy commander of the Hamza camp came. I was tired We had a brief discussion. We gave the order for tomorrow's advertisement over the phone to the advertisement headquarters. i slept