A different martyr , from acting to martyrdom in war

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By September 1980, the government had purged 12,000 army officers. These purges resulted in a drastic decline in the Iranian military’s operational capacities. Their regular army (which, in 1978, was considered the world’s fifth most powerful) had been badly weakened. The desertion rate had reached 60%, and the officer corps was devastated.

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