Final VPs: 55 830 vs 24 820.
As you may have guessed, my final blitz to Arak rather relied on the knowledge that the Iranians would have no time to mount a counterattack. While I could quite possibly have blitzed on to Qom, given a few more turns, that would have meant leaving nothing to hold on to Arak and Khorrambad, and having my heaviest hitter surrounded in Qom would have been, well, not the best position imaginable strategically. Merely going to Arak strained my lines to the limit, and all reinforcements had to battle thru Takavar-infested territories around Ahvaz and Dezful.
Still, I don't feel bad about that little strategical coup - there are enough examples in history of daring strikes carried out to imrpove one's apparent standing for impending peace negotiations.
The AI's prioritization do tend to suck. Had it not been sending so many Imperial Infantry, Pasdaran, and a couple of IIGF Infantry units to attack the fortification line east of Baghdad, it might very well have been able to hold the line at Dezful, and thus avoid my little blitz entirely.
My two armies of three T-62 each were instrumental in the successes of my offensives of '86-'88. While they did get one of them down to 1HP in Ahvaz, the Iranians on the whole were unable to do offer them effective resistance. At Arak, one wiped out the entire garrison - one IIGF and two Corps of Muhammad units - singlehandedly.
I did not build alot of Mirages, but those I build did well enough. I lost one to a F-14 on air superiority, but in return to F-14s were destroyed in failed interception attempts. The huge range of the Mirages is very useful.
I'm a little disappointed in the AI's failure to follow up on its successes in the mid-early period. It had me by the throat when the Phantoms were strafing Al Basrah at will and the Chieftains were at the gates of the city, but it let me go. Getting thrown of Khuzestan was hummilating, but little compared to the Iranian's debacle in the Zagros in '88.
