April 17, 1988 (, Boshin March two days), the U.S. Navy attacked Iran. 1988 April 17, just as the Iran-Iraq in the fierce fighting of the Al Faw peninsula, the U.S. Navy first hit Iran two oil platforms in the Gulf, and then on



battlefield carnage
dispatched seven warships, including the "Enterprise" aircraft carrier, including the largest between the United States and Iraq (Long) sea-air combat with the Iranian Navy. Since the outbreak of the war between Iran and Iraq since September 1980, after Iraq into Iran border to Iran out of bounds to the two stages of the Iraq war, is basically a situation of stalemate and the see-saw. Iran is thus in a passive state, and both sides of the fighting in Iraq and the United States, which became the main reason for the Iran-Iraq ceasefire in July 1988. Iraq purchased from the French Super Etendard aircraft

Iran-Iraq war