(1982 – 1988)
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(the Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, to ‘august 1988’)
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(the war followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq’s long-suppressed Shi’i majority, as well as Iraq’s desire to replace Iran as the dominant ‘Persian Gulf’ state)
(although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran’s revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, it made only limited progress into Iran and was quickly repelled)
(Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982)
(for the next six years, Iran was on the offensive)
(a number of proxy forces participated in the war, most notably the Iranian ‘People’s Mujahedin of Iran’ siding with Ba’athist Iraq and Iraqi Kurdish militias of the ‘Kurdistan Democratic Party’ and ‘Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’ siding with Iran—all suffering a major blow by the end of the conflict)
(despite ‘United Nations Security Council’ calls for a ‘cease-fire’, hostilities continued until ’20 august 1988′)
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(the war finally ended with United Nations Security Council Resolution 598, a UN-brokered ceasefire which was accepted by both sides)
(at the war’s conclusion, it took several weeks for the ‘Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran’ to evacuate Iraqi territory to honour pre-war international borders set by the ‘1975 Algiers Agreement’)
(the last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003)
The war cost both sides in lives and economic damage: half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, with an equivalent number of civilians, are believed to have died, with many more injured; however, the war brought neither reparations nor changes in borders.
(the conflict has been compared to World War I in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across trenches, manned machine gun posts, bayonet charges, human wave attacks across a no man’s land, and extensive use of chemical weapons such as sulfur mustard by the Iraqi government against Iranian troops, civilians, and ‘Kurds’)
(the world powers United States and the Soviet Union, together with many Western and Arab countries, provided military, intelligence, economic, and political support for Iraq)
(at the time of the conflict, the ‘United Nations Security Council’ issued statements that “chemical weapons had been used in the war”)
(UN statements never clarified that only Iraq was using chemical weapons, and according to retrospective authors “the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian[s] as well as Iraqi Kurds”)
(the ‘Security Council’ did not identify Iraq as the aggressor of the war until 11 December 1991, some 12 years after Iraq invaded Iran and 16 months following Iraq’s invasion of ‘Kuwait’)
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