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 Hamedan 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 strenghtened 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 Intelligence aid: Tudeh Party (alleged)	Neqab Organization Iran Patriotic Officers (NUPA) Supported by: Iraq (alleged)
Commanders and leaders
Ruhollah Khomeini Abolhassan Banisadr Mohammad-Ali Rajai	Shapour Bakhtiar Manucher Ghorbanifar Gen. Saeed 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
Unknown	~10 KIA Hundreds arrested, including 284 participants 144 executed

Coup d'état failed

Government of Islamic Republic of Iran

Neqab Organization

Second Bureau of Army
Revolutionary Guards

The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" (Persian: نجات قیام ایران بزرگ‎‎, acronymed Neqab Persian: نقاب‎‎, meaning mask) more commonly known as the Nojeh coup plot (Persian: کودتای نوژه‎‎ Kūdetā-ye Nōžeh) was a plan to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran and its government of Abolhassan Banisadr and Ayatollah Khomeini. The plan involved officers and servicemen from the infantry, air force, army and secret service, and was largely halted by the arrest of hundreds of officers on 9–10 July 1980 at Nojeh Air Base, near Hamedan, although substantial sabotage damage had already been carried out, with only 28 tanks (of 159) operational in the frontline Khuzestan Province. The plan was organised by Colonel Muhammad Baqir Bani-Amiri, a retired Gendermerie officer, with the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, contributing financial support and providing his contacts and authority. Bakhtiar's liaison with the conspirators in Iran was the businessman Manucher Ghorbanifar, who headed the logistics branch of the Niqab network which organised the civilian part of the plot. Bakhtiar told the plotters the United States "had given [the coup] its blessing," but "he was lying" as the U.S. "knew nothing about the Nojeh operation and would likely have opposed it on the grounds that it would endanger the lives of the [American] hostages" still held in Iran.

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