Germany didn't start targeting British civilians until the British had already started bombing German cities. Hitler, especially early on, still held on to hope that he could declare peace with UK in a few months and the two races could possibly form an alliance against US one day (the real string-pullers of 'international jewry'). UK bombed non-military targets first, in the hopes of hitting logistics targets in 1940.
Wow wtf is everyone saying in reply to your comment. On the precise matter of bombing civilians to reduce their moral but ended up having the opposite effect - the comparison is sound. Although both the British and Germans tried and failed at this. Hitler wanting peace with the UK? If you have a source to this please share. I think you're referring to the unofficial stalemate which happened when Germany made it across the European continent to the west but couldn't cross the sea to Britain. This only happened as Britain's Navy was significantly more powerful that Germany's. It was then when Hitler broke the non-aggressive pact with USSR and tried to invade them. From memory I do believe it true the British bombed German civilians first, in Berlin. I have read the squadron which did this became lost as night runs were a relatively new tactic and bombed Berlin by mistake. Hitler then retaliated with his own bombing runs on civilians. Even still, the Brits did cross the line with their civilian bombing runs which forced even themselves to question how far they were going. WW2 was pretty fucked.
komigennufan hahah Hezbollah is in Lebanon not Afghanistan you know what your government did when the soviets invaded Afghanistan they created al Queada to kill the communist and then Al Queada used American tax payer money to fly the planes in the towers search it up. Tell me how Hezbollah is a terrorist group give me a example and I will contour you with something bad the U.S did hell I will even pre counter you the U.S blew up a Iranian passenger plane killed 275 people including 75 children , theplane did nothing wrong as proven in U.S data bases . It was 100% authorized to fly an what happened after that the U.S said they are sorry then gave the captain that shoot down the plane a metal. Look at all the countries th U.S is in Iraq,Syria,Libya,Somalia tell me that your proud of what they did. If it wasn’t for America ISIS wouldn’t even be able to step an inch in Iraq with the power Paul army.
Hello from Mexico, I was very young when I used to watch almost everyday the 2:00 o'clock news, the news on the PERSIAN GOLF WAR, that's what they called it back then and I never understood quite well what was this war about, and I am sure most of the mexicans didn't either, we only used to say "poor people, why are they fighting???, there must be a lot of people dying in both countries" and so on. Today is clear to me, that many wars in this region have been caused or at least encouraged by foreign interests, shame on them for doing such an evil act of destruction. I just hope there's a god so he can make them pay for what they have done!!!
How is this war, in specific, caused by foreign interests? This seems to be motivated by the interests of Iran and Iraq, and much of the Cold War in the Middle East was fomented by Middle Eastern nations. No doubt, foreign interests were involved, but saying it was the root cause is foolish.
thank you for being educated 😚 people don't know the foreign powers that get in between these countries and push them to fight I am actually from Iraq and I read the history of middle east it was mostly effected by UK and france
Dependes how you look at it, one way to look is that if Iran still had that democratic government that was dropped by foreign powers, there would have been no war at all.
R U gay?.. on the contrary! go and check Iran weapons it's all American and Israeli weapons perhaps Iraq then have only Soviet and Chinese weapons..we know who dear if US then😅
@@мохамедофсенпаи dumb ass first learn how to write properly and secondly they provided all the logistic support to saddam at that time when he started his offense against Iran.. Go first read a history then come here
@@мохамедофсенпаи the US gave the weapons to their Shah minion before the revolution. American minions in the region are still reliant on their weapons and military bases while Iranians are developing their own weapons.
it was not precice nor accurate. Who gave iraq the poisen gas? Why was Iran a theocraty? Why did the US support the illigal attack war? Dont forget to show how damaging the US politics were. Iran once was a democracy, thanks to the usa, they are now a theocratic goverment.
Iran's modern government is the most democratic Iran has ever had, the Shah slaughtered all his opponents and the U.S happily backed him. The Shah didn't even try to make his constitution look real.
anonymous anonymous How exactly? And don't link me to Wikipedia. The article in the footnote there just has an Israeli considering joining forces with Iran since they have a common enemy now.
Jabzy You mixed up the current Supreme Leader Khamenei with Khomeini 1-Khomeni NOT Khamenei. So gotta change that Khamenei image. 2-Iran's Khuzestan over the years was diluted from a solid Arab majority due to the settling of Farsi speakers from the heartland by the Shahs. But as someone just pointed out it's majority Arab.
***** Relax baba. I know about most of these things. But if you look into it, you'll see that since the time of Reza Shah, they had been moving Farsi-speakers from Yazd and central Iran into those areas to dilute it. But yeah it's majority Arab. And I can talk however I want to. I was 6 years old when the war ended. Whatever I know is from second hand accounts. I still have some faint memories of Iraqi planes flying over Tehran. That's it. And Shah giving away Bahrain? Has nothing to do with me dude.
Monarchists? Are you kidding me? They're either dead or about to die or are so irrelevant that nobody even remembers them. If you look around a little, you'll see that the two Shahs both moved Farsi people into Iran's non-Farsi areas. Khuzestan was no exception. Sheikh Khazal was one such separatist. Your stats and tale about the early days of the Iran-Iraq war could be right. But the point is that, ethnic dilution has been going on there for years. They changed the name of "GharaDagh" to "Siyah-Kooh" and have been changing names of Azerbainjan's cities to Farsi names. It won't change the majority language that people speak there, but it shows that this government, as well as the last one, is trying to deal with Iran's ethnic diversity by making them all Farsi which is stupid. There's a better way to handle this. All they gotta do is give them some rights, such as local language classes and what not.
@@daniarassyrian8907It was Saddam's mistake to try and invade Iran and then Kuwait. Saddam considered himself very powerful so he tried invading whoever he considered a threat to his power. Unfortunately, Saddam's aggression against Shias in Iraq not only resulted in American invasion in Iraq but also resulted in the growth and secterianism and therefore the growth of groups like ISIS in Iraq. Iraq faces the consequences of Saddam's actions today.
its kinda like the yugoslav wars... when bosnians started pushing into serbia after taking sarajevo back the UN forced peace talks through bombing yet did nothing as the serbs genocided the croats and bosnians. In the iran-iraq war the UN only got involved for their own interests. UN is just a useless group of bullies that help their allies gang up on who they dont like to get what they want. Fuck the UN!
lol we are Muslim too. but we arent nut jobs who have a brigade dedicated to clearing mine fields with their own fucking bodies. Maybe its because they were defending their homeland or soemthing
Not true both countries did so and many countries do to this day it’s called conscription and Iran sent child soldiers also Iran is unable to help their vets from the war
@@impolarhd الان این کص شعری که گفتی راست بود؟ ما خود مردم انتخاب کردیم که بریم و از خاک وطنمون دفاع کنیم ، هیچ رئیس جمهوری هیچ کله گنده ای و هیچ دولتی به ما نگفت که به میدون جنگ برید یا بچه هاتونو به میدون جنگ بفرستید ، این خود مردم بودن که به پای خاک وطنشان جنگیدن این خود شیر بچه های ایران بودن که به میدون جنگ رفتن ، هیچ دولتی بهشون نگفت که برید توی میدون جنگ و شهید بشید این خود بچه های با غیرت ایرانی بودن که رفتن این خود مردک با غیرت ایرانی بودن که به میدون جنگ رفتن
The old Iranian regime were allies with Israel,so Israel wanted to keep Iran as an ally,however,it is believed the Israel supported the Kurds after they were bombed by Iraq(Israel)
+Oliver Morland Israel wasn't supplying Iran with weapons to maintain Iranian support for them. In the video, the Iran-Contra affairs is mentioned. Basically, US president Ronald Reagan wanted to keep funding the Contra fighters in Nicaragua, but Congress refused to pass it. So he decided to secretly sell weapons to Iran and use the proceeds to keep funding the Contras. Now to do all this "secretly" is where Israel came into play. And why did they fund Iran of all? People may have different views about this, if you watch the movie "Lord of War", there is scene which shows an Israeli arms dealer boasting to the protagonist of the movie, played by Nicolas Cage, that he sold weapons to both Iran and Iraq during the 1980s war. When Cage argued that the arms dealers was just a businessman without any political motives and he didn't care as to who won or who lost, the dealer replied, "Did it never occurred to you that I wanted both the countries to lose?"
Sabbir Saadat That's interesting. But I still think Israel's government was in favour of Iran during the war, mainly because Iraq was so hostile to Israel and Iran had been much less hostile to Israel before the revolution. And they probably hoped that would continue with post-shah Iran.
Oliver Morland Pre-revolution Iran (an Iran with more civil and religious liberties but a puppet US dictatorship with a brutal secret police force, the Savaks, suppressing any kind of political dissent or calls for reform) is entirely at odds with the post revolution one (a theocratic regime pioneering in the slogan "death to America"). I believe people in Israeli politics were informed and shrewd enough to realize that now they had not one, but two formidable foes.
+Oliver Morland Without help from Israel, Iran would not have been successfull in the few battles which they managed to win. Israel gave the Khomeini regime spare parts for their fighter aircraft and their US made tanks, and also gave them hundreds of TOW launchers + missiles and spare parts + missiles for HAWK SAM. At the same time Iranians were shouting Death to USA and Death to Israel and Khomeini held speeches during every friday prayers, denying getting helped by the same countries he vowed to destroy, it was a spectacle bizarre scene.
Great content as always! Why did you stop doing lists? They were cool Also, I think it would be great to see you focus on some great historical personalities like Galileo, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Joan of Arc, Alcibiades, Caesar, soo many! :)
ChessArt I've just been bogged down at work and spend a load of time making the 3 Minute History videos. What I'm hoping to do is wait until I have a few more subscribers and ask for help in suggestions for lists because it used to take me too long to decide on a list.
Goes to show you how Iran, fighting with the leftover weapons, aircraft & navy from Shah's army against the entire world, was becoming an unstoppable super power under Shah. Iranian ppl did Shah wrong. Hope he forgives us.
Hi Jabzy, as a fellow RU-vidr I should thank you for your unbiased short summary of Iran Iraq war. The horrific war that scarred so many families and held back to societies for decades. ------------------------------------------- As an Iranian expatriate however, I again need to thank you for maintaining impartiality in the midst of such noisy media propaganda. all the best A.M.G.
2:07 Until about 1986 there were still Iranian city's under iraqi controls. Also the reason that iran continued was not to take a chunk but to Iraq be known as starter of war in UN resolution and stopping Sadam from attacking because a ceasefire would get him a chance to regroup his army. Although after resolution 598 still was some conflicts and even after while Sadam being unpunished attacked Kuwait.
Iran and Iraq both became militarized after oil prices steeped. Saddam had the 5th largest army in the world, and the Shah had 4th. They had many military quarrels, the last of which was over Shattul Arab (aka Arvand River) in which the Shah took control of the river using his military might. Now Khomeini was exiled into Saddam’s Iraq for several years during Shah’s reign, and was fully aware of how Saddam does things. When he took power after the revolution, he called for another revolution of the Iraqi people to topple Saddam’s regime and replace it with an Islamic one, and the calls were heeded by many Iraqis. This, and the shaky state of Iranian military compared to Shah’s time, as well as the green light from the West, led Saddam to initiate the attack.
I hope the relations between Iraq and Iran are better now almost 3 decades after the war. It's so sad to see so many people dying because of wars all over the world The last war we really fought here in Brazil has almost two centuries now. I guess we forget sometimes how lucky we are
Very adequate description, really. It's difficult to accurately describe many contemporary wars without also adopting a bias, but you've handled the Iran-Iraq War with the careful objectivity so many professional historians and journalists unfortunately seem to lack. Bravo, truly
You don't understand the Sunni vs Shiite dispute. It is extremely important in that part of the world. It has been going on for more than 13 centuries now.
+MILINATION .MILIANO you are absolutely right. The conflict was remarkably similar to the Western Front of the First World War. It was an anachronism of a modern conflict fought with modern weapons using ancient tactics. It was a war fought with trenches and chemical weapons, barbed wire and artillery, airplanes and naval blockades. It was long, drawn out, bloody war which greatly traumatized the populations of both sides and sowed the seeds for future conflicts. It was also a war born from very old historical rivalries. Iran and the Ottoman Empire had fought numerous wars over Mesopotamia, which had historically been a Persian heartland and the location of many of Iran's great ancient capitals like Ctesiphon.
Iran recaptured Basra in 1986 during the first battle of al-faw and operation Karbala 5. They held it until the Iraqis counter-attacks in 1988 and Iran also bombed Baghdad for revenge on the bombings of Tehran.
It's interesting to note that a few years before the start of the Iran Iraq war, Saddam sent a division into Iran, over the Shat Al Arab waterway. The Iranian air force, by itself, wiped out Saddam's tank division in one stroke and this convinced Saddam to avoid escalating the conflict. After the revolution, the Iranian military experienced the second largest military purge of the 20th century (after Stalin's purges prior to WW2 in the eastern front which allowed Hitler to swarm into Russia initially almost unopposed) Half of Iran's soldiers had defected during the revolution, 5000 PLUS of the top officers had been purged, imprisoned or assassinated and all the top generals had been purged as well. Basically Iran's military was a shadow of it's pre revolutionary self. Saddam on the other hand had the latest tanks from the Soviet Union and the latest jets from France, along with intel from the US and unlimited funding from the Persian Gulf Arab States. Despite all this, after the first 2 years of fighting, Saddam's forces had been repelled from all Iranian territories and Saddam and Saudi Arabia offered Iran hundreds of billions to cease fighting, but Khomeini was convinced that his military could conquer all of Iraq within another year or two. If it had not been for the massive loans given to Saddam by the Persian Gulf Arab states, like the first loan of 250 BILLION (remember this is back then, it would be worth trillions today) Saddam's regime would have gone bankrupt and lost the war because of lack of supplies. In the end, even with the loans, the Iranians were on the verge of victory, so along with the satellite imagery, which helped guide the Iraqi artillery against Iranian positions, the US and Germany sold Saddam chemical weapons, which he used not only on Iranian soldiers and civilians but also on his own northern Kurdish population, wiping out entire villages. In the end, the war left millions dead and wounded and had the opposite effect of strengthening Khomeini's Iranian regime, as opposed to weakening it, which is what the west and Saddam were initially expecting.
The intelligence by itself was crucial, as the united states began to step up its satellite imagery after Iran captured al faw, as they were fearing that Iraq will next lose basra. The satellite imagery was a crucial factor that led to operation karbala 4 not being able to capture abu al hasib and umm al rasas and the martyrdom of many combat divers who were buried alive after being captured. Iran learnt from this and then began to train its UAV crews and used them for reconnaissance, which helped photograph images of iraqi fortifications for the successful operation karbala 5
Iranians have shown that they can be united when the time comes. Doesnt matter if they like or dont like their government. They fight for eachother and also for others.
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Nice video and explanation. 1983 the war could have been over. Hundred thousands of lives could have been saved. But nobody in Iran questions the Regime why the war was continued, which caused the further death of thousands of Iranian Soldiers and citizens. Not to mention the shooting of an Iranian Airliner by an American Warship that took the life of hundreds of Iranians as well. Also why did the Regime took American diplomats as hostages for more than 400 days and isolated the country even further? Iranians should really bring up those questions. That would get the Mullahs in a lot of trouble.
We went further with the war because Iraq troops were heavily stationed at our borders,and we couldn't trust Saddam because he did had already broken a cease fire,so we invaded them,pushed them back,but then there was the idea of taking over Iraq,which was a bit suicidal at the time,so we got heavy casualties and the the US involvement happened and forced us to accept the 598 resolution,but then Saddam helped the MEK(Mujahedeen Khalgh) to invade Kermanshah.
Very well done I'm currently half way through Iran Iraq war by Pierre razoux its crazy how Much meddling the super powers and other nations had in both countries affairs
khuzestan isnt mainly inhabited by arabs as its 75% ethnically Persian (Lurs and bakhtiaris inckuded). only the city of ahvaz is majority arab, nd thats only by a small percentage.
amin nadim It did during the Iran Iraq war. In fact, they both shared a mutual dislike for the arab nations so they did work together at times. But now their relationship has deteriorated into bitter hatred.
TheCompulsiveWinner Iran doesn't hold relations with Israel because unlike the Arab countries, Iran doesn't put up with their shit. Also, Iran is a strong ally of Hezbollah.
+TheCompulsiveWinner So what ? Because they are both Non-Arabs they have to team up ? it's like saying ISIS and Iran has to team up because they are both muslims (this logic is retarted). You can have Arab freinds but you want to have a freind that wants to divide your countries into small pieces like it's doing to Iraq and Syria ? You are free to do that
I am an Iranian - Canadian and was born during this war and to this day I suffer from thus wars effects and things I saw as a kid both countries leaders were stupid and for their own gain made their people suffer and so many lives were lost specially on irans side cause so many of the volunteer soldiers were kids as young as 12!!!!!
We Iraqis never wanted war with iran...stupid dictator saddam did and we love people of Iran and others Whatever who won or lost and who stated it I'm sure that both people didn't want war and only uneducated people who get into it
Genuine_84 , first ,was really our leader stupid. come on,if he was we are now lost our lands,second ,they start the war and we didnt do any thing to them,why do we say these things i have no idea,boy standing toward enemy has less expnses than let them beat u
This is pretty good as far as it goes but it's a bit loose with the timeline. The gassing of the Kurds at Halabja was very late in the war. Otherwise, it covers many of the major issues. The only thing I'd add - more for general information than total assessment - is the inclusion of the basij, Iranian child soldiers who were frequently slaughtered in those human wave assaults..
The video was good, but one mistake was that Khuzestan was never disputed, Iraq started to make the revisionist claim to Irans Khuzestan during abd al Karim Qasim to make himself look more nationist to Iraq's Sunni Arab elite, but failed and was killed in an American supported Batthist coup.
Jabzy, you got pretty much everything right except at the end when Iraq went on the offensive the Iranians could not beat us back. Our 1988 offensives and occupation of much Iranian territory forced Khomayni to end the war, and then we pulled back.
No, false. Iraq withdrew after Iranian counterattacks after the failed Tawakalna Iraqi offensives which were intended as a surprise attack however the offensive bogged down into a stalemate, once Imam Khomeini issued speech urging all revolutionary fighters to go to the south. He was almost about to issue a fatwa for holy war. Seeing as Iraq couldn’t hold onto south, they withdrew and we even had the potential to re invade Iraq however Imam Khomeini forbade it. Iraq then became desperate and funded MEK to invade but once again they were crushed during Operation Mersad. Typical butthurt baathist upset he lost the war lying to deceive others from his failure
so Iraq was receiving weapons from the rest of the world and they even used chemical weapons and still lost the fight.... all my respect for all the Iraninans who fought against Iraq... no respect for Iraq for fight such an unfair fight ....
Except of Israel, USA , USSR, French, Syria and Libya who supported Iran! Also Iranians bombed Iraqi schools, universities and they used chemical weapons 🙂 I don't know if you are a really fool or they fooled you
iran was the winer of the war. why?! well, look at where iran is standing today n look what happened to iraq. the real victor will appear atleast after a decade of finishing war
+Overlord 854 u need to think deeper mate then u understand what im trying to say. even the US invation iraq was bcs of the lack of power in iraq, n it was still related to the 8 yrs full scale war with iran. otherwise iran was under sanction too just like iraq
+Overlord 854 actually irans jeopolitics is very unic. there are only two countries on earth that can be at a huge war for 10 yrs n still able to handle themselves n survive, its the US n Iran. china n india could be aswell but their population is too high, n they wont be able to feed their ppl
Still Iran wasnt the core of Iraq's problems, they destroyed themselves with stupid decisions and poor administration, but Iran was not the winner in that war no one was
+Overlord 854 so except those two the rest of the world can not handle such a war, specially a war like iran,iraq war, cuz it was iran on one side n 84 countries united againts iran on the under side arming seddam army to its teeth. its very interesting if u take time n search, u find things that u could never think by ur own
Iraq being supported so much during the war with Iran meant that even if it was despised on the world stage, Iraq wasn’t super worried when they invaded Kuwait. How fast the West was willing to condemn countries on the edge of their sphere of influence was a surprise to Saddam, and something he kept trying to bring up a lot during his trail (alongside a lot of other things).
***** Well The majority of Iran's air force was trained by Israel in the 80's, 30 tanks that originally made in Israel, troops and generals advised by Israel and some in Israel, Israel destroying Iraq's WMD's capabilities, The Iran contra Affair and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan would disagree with you on how alone Iran really was.
***** No there is clear evidence that Israel was helping the Iranian military as it states "throughout the war there was always a couple hundred Israeli advisors in Tehran". This all happened after the revolution. As well Iran was supporting Shia Mujahideen against the USSR which came in contact frequently with Israel, China, Egypt and Turkey building relations to arm and fight off Soviets from threatening the region even more if they would've won the war. And again this was during the Iran Iraq war and after the Shah was overthrown.
In 1988, Iraq defeated Iran, and Khomeini himself said, “I drank poison after the Iraqis recaptured Al-Faw,” and because they recaptured Al-Faw, Khomeini’s nose was broken and the ceasefire was forced, and this is the truth without lying. I love Iraq more than Russia 🇮🇶
@@argadargad9128 Iraq was a colonial puppet causing infighting and invading nearby countries at the US's command, They claim to denounce Israel but it seems they have taken every step towards achieving Israel's goals, Saddam Hussein was imprisoning, Killing and torturing Shiites, Kurds and other minorities, Iran aided a revolution against an oppressive regime and they fought Iraq and her many collaborators with old Shah era weapons and still won not as the bully but against him.
I spoke with an Iranian fighter pilot during the shah and he said the II war was khomeni's fault not Saddam's khomeni were giving orders to militias with ties to start a bombing campaign in Iraq. Iran thought Iraq was like KSA where they can harrass them, support this militia or that militia but the Iraqi response came swift
Jabzy, you got pretty much everything right except at the end when Iraq went on the offensive the Iranians could not beat us back, after Khomayni submitted to the ceasefire proposal, we withdrew from Iranian territory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawakalna_ala_Allah_Operations
I say that as an Iraqi there are two reasons for the war 1_ Khomeini attempted to plant racism and differentiate between the two dominant sects (Sunnis and Shiites) 2_ Support them for the Kurdish revolution and the Pyramid of Algeria announced the Algiers Convention
that was not the case, at the end Iraq destroyed the Iranian Army and had the chance to take over Iran, but they did not want to have more losses in that war, plus the US pushed the UN to help stopping the war.
A correction at that last part. Iraq's last offensive actually tore Iran a new asshole and nearly collapsed their whole land military and with Iran's military on the verge of collapse the Iraqi army had a big hole to just push right into Kuzestan but they were ordered to stop because they feared another defeat and didn't actually see Iran's land military on the verge of collapse.
Ashton Adrouzi I am your Muslim brother, but sorry, Iraq is for the Iraqi people (Arabs, Kurds, Turks and Assyrians), and Iran is for you Persians. Iraq will never be a part of Iran!
Take it easy guys. The future of history is not in the hands of national states and empires anyway. We will all unite someday as humans! I know it sounds cheesy but it's true :D
Arya Pourtabatabaie Hope so, but for now, there's nothing called Persian Empire that consists of Iraq and Iran. They can make a Persian Empire within the Iranian borders! I respect the Iranians and their rich history, but we got fed up with all of the separation that is happening in our country because of the Iranian government!
Yousef Al-Assaf yousef Iraq belongs to Iran, all of Iraq will be ours. you will see. Even now, we own half of iraq, afghanistan, syria, lebonan, and soon bahrain yemen and others. persian empire will rise again! Inshallah
Kuwait was neutral from 1980-1982. In 1982, the Iranians tried to assassinate Kuwait's leadership, so, the Kuwaitis started helping the Iraqis along with over Gulf countries. Those other countries, like Saudia Arabia, waived Iraq's debt to them. However, Kuwait was slant-drilling into Iraqi oil fields & selling more than their OPEC quota, lowering oil prices and damaging Iraq's economy. So, Saddam got pissed that they were ungrateful and invaded.
You did a huge mistake in the video,Iranians took khoramshahr from Iraqi army in one of the missions.but mosel(one of the cities in iraq)is so close to khoramshahr so Iranians could take mosel but they didnt because they only wanted to take back their land and I am Iranian.
Tawakalna Too bad you're an idiot who refuse Iraq's total failure. Iraq had the support from allover the world and yet they did nothing with all their bastardized baas army and all their modern equipments.
Seriously 36 years ago is not considered history.And Tawakalna khomeini tried to invade Iraq for six years? How is this possible when it was only 1 and a half year that the Iranian regime had been victorious in the revoulotion if you read only a few lines about history of Iran you will understand that Iranians always wanted peace and if you knew anything about the war,Iranians were forced to fight with weapons that were 2nd handed and yet America was and is the number one military in the world so how the bloody hell Iranians were supposed to get Saddam with that equipment moreover America turned against Iraq just because Saddam committed many war crimes such as using mines and chemical warfare and so on.My uncle was killed during the war and my father served for the Iran military in the war.So of course I know a thing or two more about the war than you do.
Neo and Sepehr Voshmgir. It just sounds like you two are repeating the fabricated propaganda told to you by the Mullahs to keep the brainwashed Iranian population in the dark. Let me tell you something you don't know and not told in Iranian TV. Saddam sent a congratulating letter to Khomayni in early 1979. Khomayni replied that he will change the government in Iraq either by an exported revolution or by force of arms -- that is a clear threat and declaration of war. There were border clashes even as early as 1978 initiated by Iranian army as well as occupation of key border areas which they refused to give back as was promised in the 1975 Algiers Treaty. The war didn't start on 22nd September 1980, only in the Iranian narrative. Iraqi villages at the border were being shelled by Iranian artillery and aircraft long before 22nd September 1980 -- which in turn was decisive response to Iranian violations of Iraqi territorial sovereignty and existential threats. And the reality is that by July 1988 Iraq had captured 7 Iranian towns meeting little resistance and cut off the Al Mohammara - Al Ahwaz road ready to move into both cities except now with 5 times as many troops as 1980. The devil Khomayni quickly accepted the same ceasefire proposal from 1982 after 6 years of senseless war that ended 1988-8-20 with Iraqi victory. And Iraqi troops freely withdraw from all captured areas.
World's best (and relatively quick) solution for Middle East. 1. Wall up the borders (must be precisely done, be strict!) 2. Trade oil for guns. (just buy oil and sell guns - whoever) 3. Give them a time to absorb previews step (no way to ease up point #1, it's their territory) 4. Finish what's left. 5. New settlements of Middle East, happy future, take the rest of the oil.
Iraq was not an Arab state, but after the Arabic-Islamic invasion in the seventh century, Iraq turned from an Assyrian Christian state to an Arab Islamic state.
komigennufan reality is that the world superpowers funded Iraq’s military while Iran was fresh out of a revolution with no management. Whether this is about Islam is subjective, but it definitely was iran vs the world
komigennufan komigennufan bruh what have you been reading. Russia funded Iraq, not Iran because Khomeini was against communists. China did not give support, Iran just bought weapons from them. Regarding Israel that’s ridiculous, they are mortal enemies. I’m sorry but Syria Libya and North Korea don’t compare to the support Iraq was given. I didn’t learn this from Khomeini, this is literal facts
komigennufan if you do one quick google search, you’d know that Russia supported Iraq WAY more than it did to iran. It’s also speculated that Israel sold $100M worth of weapons to Iran. Now compare that to $46 BILLION worth of funding iraq received just from SA, Kuwait, and the UAE alone. Iraq still failed its invasion 💀 this is why iran won
this was great. you just missed one of the main reasons for ending the war and that was the airbus shot down by US which pressured Khomaini to accept the peace agreement.
Death to American government. Iranians never ever forget that issue. They killed more than 200 Iranian people at that flight and that Airbus was'nt warplane, just for passengers. Death to American government and its dirty policies
Gilang Wiranda Yes, that event was completely intentional and they awarded medal to General. you can search on the internet about it, Iran Air Flight 655. 290 people died.
