first Scud missiles into Iran, hitting six cities. Units Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Hamzeh Sayyed-osh-Shohada Headquarters 31st Ashura Division Commanded by Mehdi Bakeri 44th Qamar-e Bani-Hashem Brigade 41st Tharallah Division Commanded by Qassem Soleimani 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division Commanded by Mehdi Zeinoddin 25th Karbala Division Commanded by Morteza Ghorbani 14th Imam Hossein Division Commanded by Hossein Kharrazi 8th Najaf Ashraf Division Commanded by Ahmad Kazemi Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces 28th Infantry Division of Kordestan 21st Hamzeh Division of Azarbaijan Iraq Iraqi Army Republican Guard Iraqi Army Air Corps Iraqi Air Force See also Operation Dawn 2 Operation Karbala Ten Iran–Iraq War#List of major Iranian operations during the war References The Longest War, by Dilip Hiro, Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, Inc. 1991 (pg. 102). https://web.archive.org/web/20090910023608/http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2009/06/dodds-wilson.html Bibliography http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-“dawn-of-victory”-campaigns-to-the-“final-push”-part-three-of-three Dawn 4 Military operations involving chemical weapons during the Iran–Iraq War Military operations of the Iran–Iraq War involving the Peshmerga