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I'm referring mainly to this battle*, though I'm open to alternate approaches -- point is, how can the military objective of taking the port of Basra is achieved by Iran, and what happens after?
*I came across it skimming "1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History" -- only the book called it the "Battle of Basra"