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| Ship builder=Teraoka Shipyard - Minamiawaji, Japan<ref name=shipyd>((cite web |url=http://maritime-connector.com/ship/iran-ajr-7807196/ |title=7807196 Iran Ajr |publisher=Maritime Connector |access-date=29 June 2015 |archive-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204014241/http://maritime-connector.com/ship/iran-ajr-7807196/ |url-status=dead ))</ref>
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'''''Iran Ajr''''', formerly known as the ''Arya Rakhsh'', was a Japanese-built [[landing craft]] used by [[Iran]] to lay [[naval mine]]s during the [[Iran–Iraq War]].<ref name="nohigherhonor">((cite web | last = Peniston | first = Bradley | title = Capturing the Iran Ajr | work = No Higher Honor | year = 2006 | url = http://www.navybook.com/nohigherhonor/pic-iranajr.shtml | access-date = 29 June 2015))</ref> Built in 1978, the 614-ton, 54-meter ship was powered by two [[diesel engine]]s and featured a bow ramp for unloading cargo. She was [[scuttled]] in 1987.

==Iran–Iraq War==
On 21 September 1987, U.S. forces involved in [[Operation Prime Chance]] – the covert part of [[Operation Earnest Will]], the mission to protect U.S.-flagged [[petroleum]]-carrying ships in the [[Persian Gulf]] – tracked ''Iran Ajr'' and dispatched [[United States Army]] helicopters from the [[United States Navy]] [[Frigate#Guided-missile role|guided-missile frigate]] ((USS|Jarrett|FFG-33)) to shadow her. When the aviators reported that people aboard ''Iran Ajr'' were laying [[Naval mine|mines]], the U.S. commander in the Persian Gulf ordered the pilots to "stop the mining." The helicopters fired on the ship, killing some of the crewmen and chasing others into the water. A team of [[United States Navy SEALs|United States Navy SEAL]] [[commandos]] later boarded the ship, confirmed the presence of mines, and detained the surviving Iranians. On 26 September, [[Explosive ordnance disposal (United States Navy)|EOD]] MU5 Detachment 5 [[scuttling|scuttled]] the ship in [[international waters]].

When the U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate ((USS|Samuel B. Roberts|FFG-58)) struck a mine in the Persian Gulf in April 1988, U.S. Navy explosive ordnance specialists matched the serial numbers of nearby unexploded mines to the ones aboard ''Iran Ajr''. This evidence of Iranian involvement in the mining of ''Samuel B. Roberts'' led to the biggest surface-warfare naval battle since [[World War II]], the retribution campaign of 18 April 1988 called [[Operation Praying Mantis]].<ref name="nohigherhonor"/>

The captured [[Military colours, standards and guidons|colors]] of ''Iran Ajr'' are in the [[U.S. Navy Museum]].

==References==
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==Further reading==
*((cite book|last=Wise|first=Harold Lee|title=Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88|url=http://www.insidethedangerzone.com|location=Annapolis|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-59114-970-5))
*((cite book|last1=Crist|first1=David|title=The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran|date=2012|publisher=The Penguin Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-59420-341-1))

==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20020615003730/http://www.nightstalkers.com/history/4.html The attack on the Iran Ajr]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060907102736/http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1281181.html Another narration of the attack]
*[http://www.navybook.com/nohigherhonor/pic-iranajr.shtml Photos of the captured Iran Ajr and its detainees aboard U.S. Navy warships]

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