The Fighting
Operation Dawn 5 had succeeded in capturing Kut al Amara, and securing some high ground 15 miles from the highway between Basra and Baghdad. The attack had lasted from the 15th to the 22nd February, and Operation Dawn 6 was launched on the 22nd.
However, the operation, which was intended as the breakthrough operation, was bogged down by a superior Iraqi defence. The Iranians would succeed in capturing individual Iraqi lines of defence, but the Iranians would be too exhausted materially and physically to move before the Iraqis could support the next line of the defence. Eventually, by the 24th, the Iranians were unable to advance any further towards the highway, and were still 10 miles from the highway. The operation was called off on the 24th.
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