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'''Ahmad Keshvari''' ({{
He was known to often use the word "[[Simorgh]]" as the [[code name]] for his operations, thus the word is sometimes used to refer to him (in the title of works, etc.). The former Kiakola [[Bakhsh|District]] of [[Qaemshahr County]] was separated as a new county in 2012, and its name was changed to [[Simorgh County]] by then-President [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] after a non-official request by Keshvari's mother.<ref>{{cite web|title=شهرستان "سیمرغ" دیار سرلشکر شهید "احمد کشوری"|url=http://sajed.ir/detail/95797|website=sajed.ir|access-date=14 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211174619/http://sajed.ir/detail/95797|archive-date=11 February 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> [[Keshvari Rural District]] in Ilam, [[Keshvari Rural District, Simorgh County|Keshvari Rural District]] in Mazanderan, and [[Keshvari Expressway]] in Isfahan provinces, as well as Shahid Keshvari Bridge of [[Babol]] are named after him. In the Shahid Keshvari Square of [[Kiakola]], a statue of an AH-1J SeaCobra has been built to honor Keshvari. The date of his death, 7 December, is celebrated as "Army Aviation Day" in the Iranian military calendar, and has been proposed by the Iranian Army to be included in the official [[Iranian calendar]].<ref>{{cite web|title=نامگذاری 15 آذر در تقویم کشوری به روز شهید کشوری|url=http://www.mehrnews.com/news/1759900/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-15-%D8%A2%D8%B0%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%85-%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2-%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C|website=mehrnews.com|date=7 December 2012|access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref>
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In 1972, he joined the [[Imperial Iranian Army Aviation]] and passed the [[JetRanger|Bell 206 JetRanger]] and [[SeaCobra|AH-1 Cobra]] piloting courses, earning the ranking of assistant lieutenant. When the [[Iranian Revolution]] began, Keshvari had an active role in the revolution. For engaging in activities against the [[Shah]] he was arrested and interrogated by [[SAVAK]].{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} When he started his job in [[Kermanshah]], he started to identify poor people in the city. He could then organize a community fund with the help of some of his colleagues and the assistance of the Aviation Forces. He was also made commander of the [[Ilam Airport|Ilam]] Army Aviation Unit.<ref name="Keyhan">{{cite web|title=History|url=http://kayhan.ir/en/news/8231/history|website=kayhan.ir|access-date=7 February 2015|date=5 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Imam">{{cite web|title=Some important events during the 8-year war imposed on Iran|url=http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=10486|website=imamreza.net|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218151553/http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=10486|archive-date=18 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
After the revolution, he participated in the operations to clear the [[Kurdistan Province|Kurdistan]] and [[Kermanshah province|Kermanshah]] provinces in western [[Iran]] from Kurdish guerillas during the [[1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran]].<ref name="Keyhan"/><ref name="Imam"/> [[Paveh]], a city in western Iran, became the center of clashes in the Kermanshah Province and came under attack by Kurdish rebels. Iranian revolutionary, [[Mostafa Chamran]], and his men were besieged.
In September 1980, when the [[Iran-Iraq War]] began, Keshvari, who had been [[wounded in action|wounded]] in the chest in the earlier 1979 Kurdish rebellion, immediately joined the battlefield, while having another scheduled surgery.<ref name=aja2>{{cite web|url=http://www.aja.ir/portal/Home/Default.aspx?CategoryID=89256f1a-4f7d-4759-a45a-f3cb5b2235ab|title=به یاد عقاب تیز پرواز جبهه های جنگ|website=aja.ir|access-date=2015-02-11|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040229/http://www.aja.ir/portal/Home/Default.aspx?CategoryID=89256f1a-4f7d-4759-a45a-f3cb5b2235ab|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Iraqis, with tanks and armoured vehicles, were advancing in large convoys toward Iranian territory. Keshvari usually had to rely on intelligence provided by the local people, using a unit comprising several ([[TOW missile|TOW]]-capable) [[AH-1J SeaCobra]]s, and a [[Bell 206A JetRanger]] multi-purpose utility helicopter, was attacking the convoy from both the front and behind, creating confusion and chaos inside the convoy, and then retreating while another similar unit launched the final attack against the convoy. Using this tactic, which he named ''"Bekâv-o-Bokosh"'' ({{lang|fa|بکاو و بکش}}, literally "Seek n Destroy"), which in turn later became the name of his aviation units. Keshvari's units managed to stop Iraqi tanks from further advancing into the Iranian territory and destroyed many Iraqi convoys in the western battlefields.<ref name="Aviny">{{cite web|title=خلبان شهید احمد کشوری|url=http://www.aviny.com/rahiyan_noor/revaiat-eshgh/khatere/113.aspx|website=aviny.com|access-date=4 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=مادر شهید کشوری|url=http://irna.ir/fa/Photo/2720005/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C|website=irna.ir [[Islamic Republic News Agency]]|date=July 2014|access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> In the initial phases of the war, before [[IRGC]] and [[Basij]] forces had been formed, he was flying almost 12 hours per day, even though it was against aviation standards and
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On 7 December 1980, at the age of 27, Keshvari and his co-pilot Rahim Pezeshki, along with another [[AH-1J SeaCobra]] piloted by [[Ali Akbar Shiroodi]], and a [[Bell 206A JetRanger]] utility helicopter, launched Operation ''Ashura'' to destroy an Iraqi military convoy near the border of [[Ilam province|Ilam Province]], advancing deeper into Iranian territory. The convoy was destroyed, but two Iraqi [[MiG-21]]s appeared and approached Keshvari's helicopter. Keshvari told the other two helicopters to retreat, and drew attention of the Iraqi fighters while heading toward an [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force|Iranian Air Defense]] site. The fighters attacked Keshvari's helicopter, causing it to crash. The JetRanger rescued the co-pilot Pezeshki, but was forced to flee and leave Keshvari's body as the Iraqi fighters were going to make another pass. An [[surface-to-air missile]] from the air defense site downed one of the MiG-21s, while the second MiG fled. Keshvari's body was transferred to [[Kermanshah]] and was later buried in [[Tehran]]'s [[Behesht-e Zahra]] cemetery as a military personnel in the 24th plot.<ref>{{cite web|title=زندگینامه: احمد کشوری (۱۳۳۲ - ۱۳۵۹)|url=http://hamshahrionline.ir/details/261634/Defence/martyrdom|website=hamshahrionline.ir|date=6 June 2014|access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref>
In 1982, his brother, Mohammad, then aged under 17, joined the war, and was
==In popular culture==
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