O Great One, for mere mortals like me the main source of information is internet sites like Wikipedia as we don't speak the divine Farsi language.Pls spare your valuable time to read the following extract from Wikipedia about Iran Iraq War:
On 20 June 1982 Saddam announced that he was prepared to accept a ceasefire on the basis of the pre-war status quo.[60] Khomeini rejected the Iraqi peace offer, and announced that only the overthrow of the Baath regime and its replacement with an Shia Islamic republic were the only peace terms he would accept.[60] Given that Saddam's offer of 1982 served as the basis of the 1988 ceasefire, Khomeini's decision to reject Saddam's offer, and instead invade Iraq extended the war for the next six years[65]. The British historians John Bulloch and Harvey Morris wrote:
"If the leaders in Tehran had accepted [the Iraqi ceasefire offer], they might have gained at the conference table what over six years they failed to achieve at a huge cost in men and material; but true to the bitterness and intransigence shown by both sides, Ayatollah Khomeini rejected the ceasefire offer and the Iranian troops fought on. Iran would remain at war until all of its demands were met, the Ayatollah said-and one of those demands was the removal of Saddam Hussein, the one condition which the Iraqi President could never accept"[66]
On 21 June 1982 Khomenini proclaimed in a speech that Iran would invade Iraq and would not stop until an Islamic Shia republic was set up in that country.[60] The decision to invade Iraq was taken after much debate within the Iranian government.[67]
One fraction comprising Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, President Ali Khamenei and the Army Chief of Staff General Ali Sayad Shirazi urged that now that all of Iranian soil had been liberated to accept the Iraqi ceasefire offer rather embark upon an invasion that was likely to take a heavy toll on Iran's youth and with uncertain prospects for victory.[67] In particular, General Shirazi was opposed to the invasion of Iraq on logistical grounds and said he was considering resignation if "unqualified people continued to meddle with the conduct of the war".[67] On the other side, there was a hardline fraction led by clerics on the Supreme Defence Council, whose leader was the politically powerful Speaker of the Majlis Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who favored continuing the war until the Baath were overthrown.[67] Khomeini sided with the hardliners.[67]
The main reason for continuing the war was the replacement of Saddam and establishment of Shia regime in Iraq which was unacceptable for Iraq or any country in Iraq's position. Your then president,PM,Army Chief all opposed the move to invade Iraq but it was given go ahead because of pressure from hardline mullahs. In otherwords your clerics caused the deaths of thousands of young men & teenagers of your country for their own self glory and to satisfy their huge egos. In anyother country they would have been tried for incompetence & crime against own people. Your govt rejected the peace offer in 1982, but 6 years & 1 million deaths later they accepted the same. I would call it the utter disregard that your govt(especially clerics) have for the lives of their people and the prosperity of the country as a whole.
Your whole argument of destroying the iraqi military doesn't hold any water. Even after the end of war, Iraq had the most powerful military in Middle East. Thats why KSA had to invite US to oppose Iraq as even their military was powerless in front of Saddam's Army.
Using human wave to defend your country is one thing, but using the same to invade another country is just unacceptable. Your govt used human wave in Operation Ramadan carried out to capture Basra
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