The Iran-Iraq war: 25 years on

The invasion of Iran on September 22, 1980 caused a fierce war over eight years, impaired the stability of the area and destroyed the two countries.

Saddam Hussein, then leader of Iraq, claimed that the invasion was caused by a territorial dispute over the Shut Al Arab.

Saddam Hussein feels that Ayatollah Khomeini is directly threatened by the Islamic Revolution that acquired power in Iran a year ago.

To the extent he is concerned, Ayatolla believes that Saddam Hussein is a brutish Sunni tyrant who squeezes the majority Shiite in his country and does not disguise his desire to see his collapse.

Therefore, for Saddam Hussein, the aim of war was to preempt: before the regime overthrew him was to overthrow the Khomeini regime.

By 1982, the Iranian army regained the lost territory and crossed the border into Iraq. President Khomeini refused the ceasefire agreement proposed by Iraq

Conflict is a war of exhaustion, each party obviously ignores human cost.

Saddam used chemical weapons against the Iranians and the fifth column he thought of as dangerous to his own people - Kurdish of Halab - in 1988

In the "tanker war", the two sides attacked tankers and merchant ships on the Gulf and robbed each other's trade.

After Iran repeatedly attacked the ship, Kuwait called for external forces to provide protection - both the US and the Soviet Union were involved

Iranian authorities, seeing their country exhausted and isolated, demanded Komaini to accept the ceasefire.

Economic and political influence is very big. It is estimated that at least 500,000 people will die and the limit will reach 5 million people

Neither side has achieved its war target. Komeini did not overthrow Saddam. Saddam did not overthrow Komeini or redraw Iraq's borders

Iraqi leaders are trying to win, but in reality he avoids mistakes - even if there is it a lot of external assistance is needed.

Iraq's economic hardship is one of the factors that led Saddam to follow the fate of Kuwait's invasion in 1990. At that time, he helped the western and regional power who fought against Iran unite with him.

War has not only caused great human and physical costs. It erased most of the enthusiasm of the Islamic Revolution. It will make Iranian people more strongly question their civilian leadership

Because Komeini died soon after the war, the country entered a more introspective new era.

Iran - the Iraq War left a painful legacy. Modern conflict is so long that it is rarely bloody, futile.

Before the war between the invasion of neighboring countries in September 1980 and Iraq, Iraq was an enemy of Iran and caused a fierce eight-year war of at least 500,000 people (up to 1 million people) died . Iraq is using chemical weapons and ordinary ammunition to destroy Iran. They also started attacks on two nuclear reactors. Both were severely damaged by multiple airstrike attacks. The work of the nuclear program is over. Iran notified the IAEA about its attacks and the international community complained that he did nothing - and there is nowhere to go

But this is another war I remember today. This was the war between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988 when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. A few years later, when Iranians crossed the border and broke into Iraq, Saddam used gasoline for thousands of Iranian soldiers and civilians. This is for nurses and doctors at the forefront of the war. What happened? Institutionalization of chemical warfare, Saddam is an alliance of the Sun and all Sunni sun, and our first line Sunni hero used chemicals. After thousands of Iranian soldiers crossed the border, it was introduced by Iraqi radio. It announced that "Persian worms" crossed the border. This is their treatment

On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran and started an 8-year war in the conflicting Arab River Way (see Iran-Iraq War). The rapid expansion of the war brought Iraq and Iran attacking tankers in the Persian Gulf in 1984. The battle weakened the two countries, weakened the military supply of Iran and the oil industry, and put out an estimated 500,000 to 1 million casualties. President Khomeini refused diplomatic initiatives and urged Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to overthrow. Since Iran has a political relationship with Shi'a terrorists in Lebanon, in November 1986 a senior US official visited Iran secretly to exchange weapons with Iran. On July 3, 1988, US Navy warships mistakenly attacked Iranian civil aviation, all the crew died. In the same month, Khomeini agreed to accept the ceasefire between the United Nations and Iraq and ended the war.