Doritos11
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yes, however we can also giver counter arguments about that. Kurdish parties of Iran attacked Iranian soldiers in early 80s
PDKI Peshmerga and Komala armed struggle against Islamic Iran 1980
Also pilots and generals got executed and many were in jail, country was totally in mess after the revolution, army was not active when Iraq invaded. Pilots were not even trusted by the state.
Size of population did not really matter since because in 8 years war only 300000 and about 600000 Iranians got killed. So plenty of healthy men were left to join the war. Size of country would matter only if Iraq was small as Kuwait or would be kind of encircled by Iran, which was not the situation.
Yes it was a dirty and stupid war and a lot of arab countries abused Iraq Saddam by giving him tens of billions dollars to fight Iran (extreme amount of money for that time and even now).
Yes this is why theres no point in comparing the 2, who received more equipment, intel, weaponry and any of these comparisons, cause one only has to look at the intensions of the 2 superpowers and other world powers. They wanted to profit which was ensured by an arms balance for Iraq and Iran which they managed for 8 years.
The US got rid of 2 main powers in the region.
Used Iraq to weaken Iran then outplayed Iraq through Kuwait with a smart economic moves, green light for Iraq to invade Kuwait and then they took care of Iraq.