Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh
Iranian combantant killed in Iran–Iraq war
Died when: 13 years 177 days (161 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh (Persian: ???? ???? ??????; 6 May 1967 – 30 October 1980) was an Iranian child soldier and an icon of the Iran–Iraq War.During the First Battle of Khorramshahr in 1980, he served with the Basij and fought invading Iraqi forces in and around the city of Khorramshahr.
Fahmideh is credited with having halted the advance of an Iraqi tank column after he jumped underneath an Iraqi tank and detonated a full grenade belt, killing himself in the process.
He is celebrated as a war hero in Iran.
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