Iran-Iraq War fighter pilots

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As far as I know there was no official list. There were some semi-official lists, published years after the war in different books and magazines, but the claims are not supported and differ wildly for certain pilots (F-4 pilot Aliyah Hoda was credited with 6, 9 or zero kills). Most often listed pilots, with up to 12 kills, were Zandi, Harandi and Rostami.


But it is quite possible that the "highest scoring ace" of IIRAF was not even a pilot - Brigadier Abbas Babaei, often flew as a "second seater" on F-14s, F-4s and F-5 two-seaters, with pilots, who were considered suspicious and disloyal to the islamist regime. Some accounts credit him with taking part in over 20 shot-downs.