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Outcome (and Settlement): Missing (Missing)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Two American missiles landed in Iranian territory and aircraft violated
Iranian airspace while conducting military operations during the war against Iraq.
Iran later detained American boats and crew overnight, while American forces seized
Iranian journalists for suspicious activity. Both sides protested the seizures.
MID#4519
Dispute Number: 4519
Date(s): March 14, 2004
Participants: 630 Iran/2 United States of America
Outcome (and Settlement): Victory for side B (None)
Fatalities: 1–25 deaths
Narrative: Iranian and American troops clashed across the border in northern Iraq.
One Iranian was killed.
MID#4524
Dispute Number: 4524
Date(s): August 19, 2004 to January 1, 2005
Participants: 2 United States of America/630 Iran
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: The United States tested Iranian defenses on three separate occasions. First,
American planes tested Iran’s antiaircraft defenses with an airspace violation in August
- Another violation occurred in November, and warplanes again violated Iranian air-
space in January 2005—this time over the Afghan border, while searching for nuclear sites.
MID#4535
Dispute Number: 4535
Date(s): January 11, 2007 to June 11, 2007
Participants: 2 United States of America/630 Iran
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: The United States engaged in three military incidents against Iran as a
response to Iran’s growing nuclear weapons effort. In January 2007 American troops
entered the Iranian consulate in Arbil and seized five staff and various documents.
Military exercises in the Persian Gulf followed in March, and American warplanes
flew over southwest Iran in April. The United States released the five Iranians on July
9, 2009, after more than two-and-a-half years of imprisonment.
MID#4538
Dispute Number: 4538
Date(s): August 28, 2007 to August 29, 2007