Operation Fath 1

Operation Fath 1
	Part of Iran–Iraq War – Northern Front
Date	11–12 October 1986 (2 days)
Location	Kirkuk area, northern Iraq
Result	Iranian and Kurdish victory
Belligerents
Iraq	Iran; Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Commanders and leaders
	Yahya Rahim Safavi (deputy commander of IRGC); Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr (IRGC commander of the operation); Jalal Talabani (leader of PUK); Nawshirwan Mustafa (Peshmerga commander of the operation)
Strength
Unknown	Iran: IRGC: 400 (not all of them engaged); PUK: Peshmerga: 2,000 partisans;
Casualties and losses
600 killed and wounded, dozens captured; 1 helicopter destroyed	Iran:; None, several lightly wounded; PUK:; Unknown, but minimal

Operation Fath 1 (Persian: عملیات فتح 1, meaning "conquest"), or Operation Wahdat (the Kurdish code-name), was a joint Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish special operation conducted by Iran's IRGC special forces and Iraqi Kurdish partisans of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in 11 and 12 October 1986 in Kirkuk area of northern Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The Iranian and Kurdish forces infiltrated into the area and successfully attacked economic and military targets with minimal losses of their own.

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