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The Bridgeton incident was the mining of the supertanker SS Bridgeton near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf on July 24, 1987. The ship was sailing in the first convoy of Operation Earnest Will, the U.S. response to Kuwaiti requests to protect its tankers from attack amid the Iran–Iraq War. The explosion of an Iranian mine in the Gulf's shipping channel damaged Bridgeton's outer hull but did not prevent it from completing its voyage.

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Operation Earnest Will was the American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.

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Operation Nasr, fought in early January 1981, was a major battle of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the biggest tank battle of the Iran–Iraq War.

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Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 3 was a military operation during Iran-Iraq War, which was launched on 14 March 1988—by Iran—with the code of "Ya Mousa ibn Jafar" ; whose goal was to capture the heights of Sulaymaniyah, and also in order to respond the Iraqi actions in bombarding of residential areas in the general region of Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

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Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 4 was a military operation during Iran-Iraq War which was launched by Iran on 25 March 1988 by the code of "Ya Aba Abd-Allah al-Hussain (a.s.)" at the axis of Halabcheh-Shakhshemiran, by the command of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and it was lasted for two days. The goal of the operation was to fulfill/secure the left flank of Operation Dawn 10 area—which was considered as a sensitive area for Iraq.

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Operation Dawn 9, also known as "Operation Walfajr-9", was a military operation during Iran-Iraq War, which was launched on 24 February 1986 on the east area of Sulaymaniyah at the front of "northwest", which was performed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Operation Prime Chance was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S.-flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will, the largely naval effort to escort the tankers through the Persian Gulf. The operation was begun after the mining of the U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti oil tanker Bridgeton.

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Tawakkul Operation is the name of an military operation during Iran Iraq War which was launched by Iran's army -- plus a number of militaries from Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and headquarters of irregular wars -- on 10 January 1981. Armors began it from two axes, and the infantries started it through the third axis.