The Outbreak of Iran-Iraq

In the fall of 1980, Iran and Iraq began one of the largest and most devastating conflicts that took place at the end of the Second World War. About 5 million people died in the war for 8 years, about 1 million people were injured, and thousands of refugees fled from both countries. The root of this conflict can be traced back to the conflict between Iranian Persia and the power of the Arab Iraq region (Bahadori, 2005). For centuries Persians and Arabs have fought against the flag of the empire.

The war between Iran and Iraq is an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq, which began on September 22, 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, when Iran accepted the discontinuation of the United Nations on August 20, 1988 finished. Iraq wants to replace Iran as a Persian Gulf Country and the 1979 Iranian Revolution fears that the majority of Iraqi Shiites will bring rebellion against the Ba'th Party government. The war is accompanied by a long history of border conflict, and Iraq plans to merge the oil rich province of Khuzestan and the Arabian River (Arab)

In the context of the history of Iran including the United States, which supported Iraq in the 1980s Iran's war, this war produced hundreds of thousands of Iranians - Iran believed that both Israel and the United States were intimidated Strange to say, in 2003, after a massive US military invaded and occupied the neighboring Iraq, Iran sponsored the anti-American Iraq militia; or the United States and its allies were against Syria's anti-Syrian anti- Armed with government forces. When it became a full-scale civil war, Iran sent troops to Syria to save that long-time Allied country Bashar-Asad regime, not seeing whether it is a parent American army

Iraq's economy is characterized by its dependence on oil exports and emphasizes development under the central plan. Before the war with Iran started in September 1980, the economic outlook of Iraq was bright. Petroleum production reached a level of 5 million barrels per day, with oil revenue of $ 21 billion in 1979 and $ 27 billion in 1980. Upon the outbreak of war, Iraq accumulated about $ 35 billion in foreign exchange reserves. Iran - the Iraq war exhausted Iraq 's foreign currency reserves, destroyed the economy and brought foreign debt to the nation over $ 40 billion. Following the suspension of hostile activities, oil exports are gradually increasing with the construction of new pipelines and the restoration of damaged facilities. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international sanctions, and destruction caused by the military operations of the League of Nations, which began in January 1991, greatly reduced economic activity.