Tehran, YJC. 24 years ago on the same day a great commander of the IRGC and organizer of the IRGC artillery was killed by a Ba’ath missile.
Hassan Shafizadeh is mostly remembered for his astonishing
deployment of artillery under US AWACS (An airborne early warning and control) , Fars news agency reports.
The IRGC commander at that time had told him that the Basij
had to be protected by battery in the first couple days of the operation, since
there was no trench. He had told him to protect the forces by battery as if by
trenches. This Shafizadeh did very well.
To deploy all that artillery under US AEW&C, the fifth
column, and Iraqi fighters was an art to be performed only by Shafizadeh.
He would go to the area for reconnaissance in local garments,
by tractor or pickup, and as technician working for the water supplies. When the
operations started the engineering units were positioning the artillery and the
guns simultaneously started firing. In the meanwhile they trafficked a lot of
ammunition to the front.