Nojeh coup plot

"Saving Iran's Great Uprising"
	Part of Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution
Date	9–10 July 1980
Location	Planned to start from near Hamadan and undergo in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan and Sistan and Baluchestan
Result	Coup d'état failed Helped persuade authorities that domestic and foreign actors are trying to destroy the establishment; Office of National Front and its newspaper closed; Revolutionary Guards strengthened; Esprit de corps and strength of Islamic Republic of Iran Army undermined following arrests, executions and purges of 2,000–4,000 personnel; Iraqi Invasion was facilitated; Shapour Bakhtiar was assassinated later in Paris in 1991;
Government-Insurgents
Government of Islamic Republic of Iran Cabinet of Rajai; Revolutionary Council; Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization Intelligence aid: Tudeh Party (alleged);	Azadegan Organization Neqab Organisation; Iran Patriotic Officers (NUPA); Supported by: Iraq (alleged);
Commanders and leaders
Ruhollah Khomeini; Abolhassan Banisadr; Mohammad-Ali Rajai;	Shapour Bakhtiar; Manucher Ghorbanifar; Gen. Saeid Mahdioun ; Gen. Ayat Mohaqeqi ; Col. Mohammad Baqer Bani-Ameri; Col. Hadi Izadi ;
Units involved
Second Bureau of Army; Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Unit; Revolutionary Committees; Prime Ministry Intelligence Office	Retired and active-duty personnel from: Nojeh Air Base; 23rd Commando Division; 1st Infantry Division; 92nd Armored Division; 1st Marine Battalion; Shahrbani;
Strength
	700–750 military personnel; 300–400 civilians (~100 in Tehran);
Casualties and losses
1 KIA	~10 KIA; Hundreds arrested, including 284 participants; 144 executed;

The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" (Persian: نجات قیام ایران بزرگ; acronymed NEQAB, Persian: نقاب, lit. 'Mask') more commonly known as the Nojeh coup d'état (Persian: کودتای نوژه, romanized: Kūdetâ-ye Nowžeh), was a plan to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran and its government of Abolhassan Banisadr and Ruhollah Khomeini.

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