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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Iran attacked Iraq. They had a war about it (maybe before you were born greenlight?)
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Sorry man, but it was the other way around.
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The Iran–Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran 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
Shi'i majority, as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant
Persian Gulf state. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, it made only limited progress into Iran and was quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive.
[42] A number of proxy forces participated in the war, most notably the Iranian
People's Mujahedin of Iran siding with Ba'athist Iraq and Iraqi Kurdish militias of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party and
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan siding with Iran—all suffering a major blow by the end of the conflict.
Despite
United Nations Security Council calls for a ceasefire, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with
United Nations Security Council Resolution 598, a U.N.-brokered ceasefire which was accepted by both sides. At the war's conclusion, it took several weeks for the
Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran to evacuate Iraqi territory to honour pre-war international borders set by the
1975 Algiers Agreement.
[43] The last
prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003.
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