In this operation, six F-4E Phantom IIs from IRIAF's 32nd and 33rd Squadrons took part in an attack on the Al-Hurriah Airbase near Mosul in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

In the last days of October 1980, commanders of the 1st Tactical Air Base (TAB 1) of Iran in Tehran received intelligence that French engineers had been sent to Iraq and a number of Mirage F1s that the Iraqi Air Force had bought from France were stationed at Al-Hurriah Airbase.

The personnel of the French Air Force were appointed to train Iraqi pilots and technicians to use Mirage F1s.

If the operational team crossed Iran's border and headed straight to Mosul, they would have come across Air Defence bases which were supplied with SA-2, SA-3, and SA-6 surface-to-air missiles.

Iraqi fighters now noticed the danger and reduced their altitude, which Iranian pilots said was the mistake that made their work easier.

Sedqi chased the leader and released first AIM-7 which hit the tail and seconds later a wing detached and it leaped toward the ground.

One of the killed Iraqi pilots was Ahmad Sabah, who had shot down two Northrop F-5 of the IRIAF in the early days of the war.