intro -
The
Iran–Iraq War, also known as the
First Persian Gulf War, was an armed conflict between the
Islamic Republic of Iran and the
Republic of Iraq lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the 20th century's longest
conventional war .
The Iran–Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via air and land on 22 September 1980. It followed a long history of
border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the
Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed
Shia majority as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant
Persian Gulf state.
the war had 100,000+ civilians killed on both sides (not including 182,000 civilians killed in the
Al-Anfal Campaign)
Total: 1,250,000 killed
With more than a million casualties in the war from both sides, it was also one of the bloodiest wars of the last century.
Iraq envisioned that its invasion of Iran in September 1980 would lead to a swift victory, given the recent revolution in Iran and the large-scale desertions from the army following the revolution, which were estimated at 60 percent. Iraq quickly occupied the port city of Khorramshahr in September 1980. Despite its weakened army and untrained forces, the Iranian forces were able to fight off Iraq’s attempt to take the city of Abadan, where the largest oil refinery of Middle East at the time was housed. It took two years for Iran to free the city of Khorramshahr (1982), at which point the Islamic Republic decided to turn on the offensive and attack Iraqi territory.
The war continued for another six years, and when both sides finally signed the ceasefire, no territorial changes had taken place during the war.
The war cost both sides in economic damage: half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers are believed to have died, with many more injured; however, the war brought neither reparations nor changes in borders. The conflict has been compared to
World War I in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale
trench warfare with
barbed wire stretched across trenches, manned
machine-gun posts, bayonet charges,
human wave attacks across a
no-man's land, and extensive use of
chemical weapons such as
mustard gas by the Iraqi government against Iranian troops, civilians, and Iraqi
Kurds. At the time of the conflict, the U.N. Security Council issued statements that "chemical weapons had been used in the war." U.N. statements never clarified that only Iraq was using chemical weapons, and according to retrospective authors "the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian as well as Iraqi Kurds
in this article u will explore the interesting but unfortunate turn of events in iran-iraq war from historical and military aspects .
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source :
Iran–Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iran-Iraq War - The Skin That Burns
Iran-Iraq War -- Encyclopedia Britannica
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Joe Shearer
modification and comment please !
You don't give away the results and gist of the whole war in the first small post itself.
We are still short of members for the Wiki project and this war has nothing to do with Pakistan military affairs .
