sentences:  However, despite its scale, the Iranians were able to repulse the attack.On 24 May, the Iranians liberated Khorramshahr; the vitally strategically and symbolically important Iranian city whose capture by Iraq had been the low-point of Iranian fortunes in the early days of the war
  
  The Iraqis were ordered to retreat, although many had done so when Khorramshar had fallen, back into Iraq.The Iranians captured 15,000-19,000 Iraqi troops and a substantial amount of Iraqi military hardware in Khorramshahr.