The martyred pilot whose body was cut into two pieces by Saddam's command

TEHRAN_ (defapress) Martyr Ali Eghbali Dogahe was one of the pilots of Iranian Air Force, who inflicted deadly strikes on Baathist forces in the Holy Defense, and for this reason, Saddam ordered that his body to be cut into two halves by tying rope and dragging him by two jeeps.

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Date: 02 November 2022 - 13:30

after his capture, and half of his holy body was buried in Ninawa and half in Mosul, Iraq.

His martyrdom took place on the day of Eid al-Adha, coinciding with the October 23,1980. After the successful bombing of Al-Aqra garrison in northern Iraq, as well as in the Mosul airspace, his plane was hit, and while he was near the Iranian border, his plane crashed and he had to exit the plane on Iraq land.
Maj. Gen. Seyed Ali Eghbali Dogaheh while being captured alive by Iraqi mercenaries, contrary to all moral and humanitarian principles and international agreements on the treatment of prisoners of war, was martyred in the most brutal and cruel way possible on Saddam's orders, due to the deadly blows inflicted on the body of the Iraqi war machine by the Iranian army air force in the first month of the war.

This crime was so brutal that the Ba'athist regime, in a shameless attempt to cover up this horrible crime, refused to announce the fate of that oppressed martyr for years, and for 22 years no information was available about his fate.

Until in June 1991, based on available operational and intelligence reports, and a letter sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding his martyrdom, and accroding to other statements by released prisoners and Iraqi captive pilots, the martyrdom of pilot Ali Eghbali was confirmed.
With the follow-up by the Committee for the Search of Prisoners and the Missing of War and the International Committee of the Red Cross, his body, part of which had been buried in Ninawa Cemetery and part in the Zubair Cemetery in Mosul, along with the bodies of several other martyred pilots of Iran Air Force returned to his homeland after 22 years being away from homeland, amid the grief of his family, friends and comrades.

The funeral of their sacred bodies was held in a very glorious and historic atmosphere in the Morning Square of the Air Force Headquarters.

And on the 27th of July, 2002, he was laid to rest in the pilots' section of Behesht Zahra, along with his other comrades.
May his memory be cherished and his name be eternal.