Abdorrasul Zarrin

Abdolrasoul Zarrin (in Persian: عبدالرسول زرین ; 1941–1984) was an Iranian sniper during the Iran–Iraq War. Iranian sources claim he had a total of 740 confirmed kills during the war, with 2,000 shots that hit the enemy.

According to Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi, his friend and intelligence commander of the Younis Diver Battalion, Mousavi asked Zarrin six or seven months before Zarrin's death how many Iraqi soldiers he shot; after initial reluctance to reveal the number, Zarrin said more than 2,000 Iraqi soldiers are recorded in his notebook, with 740 of them being confirmed kills. Jamejam newspaper agreed on this number.

According to Iranian News Agency, he was one of the best snipers in the world.

Early life
Abdolrasoul Zarrin was born in 1941 in the village of Qaleh Gol, near Dehdasht. At the age of 4, he lost his father, and at the age of 6, he lost his mother and was placed under the care of his uncle.

As a teenager, he was able to find his paternal relatives in Isfahan and settle down with them for work and life. Zarrin finally managed to set up a clothing store near the Baba Ali Asgar Mosque in Isfahan and start a family. He had seven children.

Death
Zarrin was killed in action on 1 March 1984, during the second phase of Operation Kheibar.

Legacy
Hossein Kharrazi called him a one-man battalion, and the Iraqis called him Khomeini's hunter.

He was awarded the honorary rank of brevet after his death.

In popular culture
A film based on his life has been produced by the Fatah Narrative Cultural Foundation with the original name Hunter's prey (which was later changed to Sniper), produced by Ebrahim Asghari and directed by Ali Ghaffari, in which Kambiz Dirbaz plays the main role.

The film entered the Simorgh Soda section of the 39th Fajr Film Festival, and Crystal Simorgh received the "Best Film from National Perspective".