religious schisms, border disputes, and political differences. Above all, Iraq launched the war in an effort to strengthen its rising power in the Arab world and to replace

The second attack was on Iranian forces in the Fish Lake and Shalmajah areas near al-Basrah and recaptured the oil-rich Majnun Islands. Farther north, in the last major battle before the 1988 peace agreement, Iraqi armored and mechanized forces penetrated deep into Iran, defeating Iranian forces and capturing huge amounts of armor and artillery. In the fall of 1988, the Iraqis displayed in Baghdad captured Iranian weapons amounting to more than three-quarters of the Iranian armor inventory and almost half of its artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers. The Iran-Iraq war lasted nearly eight years, from September of 1980 until August of 1988. It ended when Iran accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 598, leading to a cease-fire. The war was finally at an end but not without cost. The Iraqis lost an average of 375,000 people during the war and the Iranians took another 60,000 as prisoner. Iran’s losses may have included more than 1 million people killed or maimed. The Iran-Iraq war opened the eyes to the rest of the world, showing them that Saddam Hussein could be a threat to the United States and its allies. Since he used mustard gas and other chemicals on Iran, what was to stop him from acquiring nuclear weapons so he could use on all of his enemies. Keep in mind that the Baath party was against any sort of colonization by the west into the middle east, which had already started.

operations, Iraq routinely supported their attacks with deep fires and integrated chemical fires on forward defenses or command posts. During the Iran-Iraq wars,

officials resulting in several arms shipments to Iran. And that’s when Iraq and Saddam Hussein started using “ Special Weapons”. When conducting offensive

Much of Iraq’s export ability was lost during the Iran-Iraq War, either to war-related damage or due to political reasons. Iran’s income share fell after the 1978/79 Iranian Revolution, followed soon after by the Iran-Iraq War for much of the a980s, and has not recovered since. Iran used to make 7 million barrels of crude oil a day until their oil terminals were eliminated by more then 9,000 bombing raids during the Iran-Iraq War thus leading to the tanker War, which lasted three years (1984-1987). The tanker war had two phases. The firs phase began in 1981, and the well-publicized second phase began in 1984. During the first phase, Baghdad officially warned all ships heading to or returning from Iranian ports in from Iranian ports in the northern zone of the Gulf to stay away or, if they entered, to continue at their own risk. The main targets in this phase were the ports of Bandare Khomeini and Bandar-e Mushur. In March 1984, the tanker war entered its second phase when Iraq initiated sustained naval operations in its self-declared 1,126-kilometer maritime exclusion zone, extending from the mouth of the Shatt al Arab to Iran’s port Bushehr. In 1981 Baghdad had attacked Iranian ports and oil complexes as well as neutral tankers and ships sailing to and from Iran; in 1984 Iraq expanded the so-called tanker war by using French Super-Etendard combat aircraft armed with Exocet missiles. Until the March attack, Iran had not intentionally attacked civilian ship

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