Iran Press/Iran news: "More than 500 local ceremonies and 32 national ceremonies are scheduled to be held marking the liberation of the port city of Khorramshahr," Brigadier General Bahman Kargar announced on Monday.
Brigadier General Kargar made the remark on Monday at a press conference in Tehran.
According to an Iran Press report, Brigadier General Kargar said: "Holding a national youth poem festival, unveiling 200 books about sacred defence (Iran-Iraq war) era and also unveiling a 3-volume encyclopedia about sacred defence, are among other plans for marking the 37th anniversary of liberation of Khorramshahr -- a port in southwestern Iran."
Iranian forces recaptured the strategic port city during a landmark operation code-named Beit ol-Moqaddas in 1982, putting an end to over 500 days of Iraqi Ba'athist occupation.
During the week-long Beit ol-Moqaddas operation, some 6,000 Iranian soldiers were martyred and nearly 24,000 others injured.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched an eight-year-war with the support of major powers and their allies in the region in 1980, just a year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution.
The war drew to a close in August 1988, when Iran accepted UN Security Council Resolution 598 which declared Saddam as the initiator of the conflict.
During the eight-year-long war, Iraq received plenty of support from over twenty European and Western countries led by United States of America. 101/211/201
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