(August 9, 1980) Six weeks later, Hussein and the Ba’athists used the national wealth to plunge the Iraqi people into a bloody war against Iran. The historical background of the Iran-Iraq War is ...
Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...
as a result of the 1991 Gulf War, the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War, two decades of internal conflict, and even World War Two. Landmines and UXO pose a problem in the north, along the Iran-Iraq border ...
The document summarized the various moves made by Washington in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war. In May 1987, a U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Iraq in the Persian Gulf. The document explained that ...