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    The Iran-Iraq war ... futility and destruction and more than a million dead

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    The Iran-Iraq war ... futility and destruction and more than a million dead

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    The Iran-Iraq war is one of the longest wars of the twentieth century, which broke out in September 1980 and ended in August 1988 and left more than a million people dead, and severely damaged the economies of the two countries.

    Algeria Agreement 1975

    In 1975, Iraq and Iran signed the Algiers Agreement (March 6, 1975), which included Iran's abandonment of support for the Kurds, in southern Kurdistan, in exchange for Baghdad’s recognition of the Shatt al-Arab parity between the two countries by restoring what is known as the Taluk line to its previous era.

    the war

    After the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, political relations between Iraq and Iran worsened, as the two countries exchanged withdrawal of ambassadors in March 1980 and reduced the level of diplomatic representation. On September 4, 1980, Iraq accused Iran of bombing the Iraqi border towns, considering it the beginning of the war. On September 17, the buried Saddam Hussein canceled the 1975 agreement with Iran and considered the Shatt al-Arab waters as part of the Iraqi territorial waters. With the frequency of combat incidents on the borders, Saddam decided on September 22, 1980, to launch a military campaign against Iran, and the Iraqi army advanced quickly, and the Iraqi leadership’s estimate was that the war would be lightning and limited because it thought that the Iranian army was weak after a campaign of arrests carried out by the new Iranian authorities for a number of Senior commanders of the Iranian army during the reign of the Shah, but by February 1982, the Iranian army had regained large areas in the center of the country. By the summer, the Iranian military had begun launching attacks deep into Iraqi territory.

    In the years 1983-1984, Iran focused its efforts on controlling Basra, and Iraq responded by launching urban warfare in April 1984, which was an intense air campaign that targeted Iranian cities, and Iran responded with missile strikes against Iraqi military and economic targets.

    While the war was raging on the ground, there was another war targeting the oil tankers and merchant ships of the two countries before it expanded to include the supporting countries, including the Iranian warships attacking a number of Kuwaiti merchant ships, which called Kuwait to request international assistance to protect its ships.

    The regional and international role

    The Arab countries - with the exception of Algeria, Libya, and Syria - sided with Iraq, so it benefited from generous support from the Gulf states to cover the exorbitant cost of the war, as the Iraqi war and armament effort sometimes reached more than three billion dollars annually. As for international actors, their role remained marginal until 1986.

    Iraq obtained its need of weapons first from France and then from China and the Soviet Union at that time, as well as from the United States on a smaller scale, although several sources talk about Iraq getting Western logistical support (American, British and French ...) represented in satellite images Industrial facilities for the Iranian army's positions and movements, as well as providing spare parts, equipment and ammunition.

    As for Iran, it obtained weapons from some communist countries, spare parts for tanks (Umm-48 and M60) from other countries, and it also obtained support with weapons and ammunition from the regime of then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in Syria and the regime of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.

    The cost of the war

    The Gulf War ended on August 8, 1988, and economists estimate the cost of eight years of the war at more than four hundred billion dollars, in addition to the most important human cost, which is more than a million dead and many times that of the injured and disabled. It also left extensive damage to the infrastructure of the two countries and caused great damage to the oil installations that are the mainstay of their economies .. The war ended with Security Council Resolution No. 598, which both sides accepted. At the end of the war, it took several weeks for the Iranian armed forces to withdraw from Iraqi territory and return to the pre-war set out in the 1975 Algiers Accord. The war that was the beginning of a more dangerous war represented by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 ended.

    The Security Council did not recognize Iraq as the aggressor party in the war until December 11, 1991, about 12 years after Iraq invaded Iran and 16 months after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
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