It was a grave miscalculation by the West-backed Saddam regime. Khorramshahr, with only a few thousand armed men, successfully resisted tens of thousands of foreign invaders for a full month and a half.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the Sacred Defense against the Saddam regime’s eight-year invasion of Iran proved that protecting Iran can be achieved only through resistance not surrender.

The IRGC hails the victorious defense of the Iranian nation in Iraq’s imposed war as a guarantor of the expulsion of American forces from the region.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the Iranian nation will never forget the legacy of the martyrs of Iraq’s eight-year war against Iran.