Mohsen Rezaee: Thought and Belief Were Elements of Victory in “Kheybar”? Operation

TEHRAN, (SCIB) - Secretariat of “Expediency Council”? delivered speech at “Kheybar-shekanan”? Conference and said: “Kheybar operation was one of the glories which was achieved by thought and belief of combatants in order that the dead end of the war was broken and the way of victory was opened.”?

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شنبه - ۲۶ ارديبهشت ۲۰۰۸ / 2008 26 February

According to the reporter of Navideshahed; “Kheybar-shekanan”? Conference was held by “Foundation for Preservation of Monuments and Dissemination of Values of Sacred Defense”? in Seyed-ol-shohada Cultural- Art Center on Sunday. Secretariat of “Expediency Council”? attended this conference and said: “We fought with classic method in battle fields during the first years of war. And considering few facilities and equipments that we had we were not able to manage the war; so we reached to the point that we should plan for new methods and tactics. To this end, we started to study and identify our forces and facilities of the enemy. And the result was planning a new war tactic and method and consequently freeing Khorramshahr.”? Considering our stop in battle fields after freeing Khorramshahr, our minds focused on a region of Khoozestan which its southern border in Ahvaz ended to Iraq lands. It was an area with a length of 200 kilometers. We would actually make a large hole in Iraq land if we could enter Iraq through this area and move ahead for 60 kilometers. And we could use this hole to organize our operations against Iraqi army, he added. Our forces had battled on land operation regions since start of the war. They had no experience in battling in marine regions. It was while the forces who wanted to switch the type of their battle from land to marine needed 4 or 5 years; but we did this tactic change in a short time of less than 8 months. To this end, we constructed a bridge with a length of 15 kilometers in “Hour”? region. Building such a long bridge was not imaginable by experts. Consequently and following day and night efforts, a suspension bridge with a length of 15 kilometers was constructed which was named “Kheybar”?, Mohsen Rezaee said. In conclusion, he said: “Kheybar operation started considering the situation and facilities at that time. And the result was a big shock for Ba’thi regime army which caused Iraq’s madly use of all possible facilities including chemical and microbe weapons and attacking our combatants with such weapons.”?