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Mott Hall And The Iraq-Iran War

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Muhammed Darboe
Mott Hall V

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The attack of Iran by Iraq started the launch of the Iraq-Iran war. This attack introduced attacks through all of Iran on 22nd September 1980.As a result, there was a history of long border mistakes as well as Shia revolution's fears among the Shia majority group which had been controlled and hidden for a long time in Iraq.The Iran-Iraq War lasted for almost eight years.This was among the most cruel wars that were fought in that century.More than one million people were killed during the war and another million people hurt in both Iran and Iraq. The Western world was shocked …show more content…

Shah was banned from a country he once ruled and Saddam couldn't wait to become the strong and healthy leader in the Middle East. He was trying to take land from Iran earlier in order to enlarge the entry of Iraq to Persian Gulf. Although the military of Saddam Hussein had more than two changes, the Iraq military was pushed back to Iraq by the Iranian military by 1982. Following this push, the Khomeini did not agree to the peace agreement suggested by Iraq. This resulted in big payment expenses and the ending of the rule of Saddam.. The aim of Khomeini was to spread around Islamic to the west in Iraq especially the Shi'a Arabs within the …show more content…

For a short time, Iraq got support from Egypt, Arab in the Persian Gulf, the Warsaw Agreement states, the USSR, USA, Germany, the People's Republic of China, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the French government in power. These countries offered chemical weapons negotiators, intelligence and military help to the management of Saddam Hussein. And because of that there were more than 100,000 Iranian deaths due to the nuclear weapons that were used by Iraq during the 8 years of the war.Almost all international established that the aim of Hussein while using chemical weapons was to lessen the invasion of talkative wave by Iran while thoroughly claiming that Iraq did not use chemical weapons during this

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