Operation Forty Stars

Operation Forty Stars
	Part of the Iran–Iraq War
Date	18 June 1988
Location	Mehran County, Iran
Result	MEK victory, seizure of Mehran Successful MEK offensive; Iranian defensive failure;
Belligerents
MEK;	Iran
Commanders and leaders
Massoud Rajavi	Ruhollah Khomeini; Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; Ali Shahbazi
Strength
22 PMOI brigades	16,000 (PMOI claim)
Casualties and losses
PMOI; 71 dead (PMOI claim); 240 wounded (PMOI claim); Thousands dead (Iranian claim)	8,000 dead and wounded (PMOI claim); 1,500–3,000 captured; 40 tanks; 20 APCs; numerous 155mm and 130mm artillery pieces; numerous TOW ATGMs; numerous HAWK SAM batteries, and hundreds of small arms, mortars and machineguns captured

Operation Forty Stars (Persian: عملیات چلچراغ), also known as Operation Forty Lights, or Chelcheraq, was a military operation conducted by the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) at the closing stages of the Iran–Iraq War on 18 June 1988. The goal was to occupy the Iranian border city of Mehran to control its oil fields, as well as Kurdish villages in the region.

In four days, the People's Mujahedin of Iran wiped out a Pasdaran division, seizing Mehran and building a bridgehead twelve miles into Iran.

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