Iran-Iraq War

noun

1. Also called: Gulf War. the war (1980–88) fought by Iran and Iraq, following the Iraqi invasion of disputed border territory in Iran. It ended indecisively with no important gains on either side: Iraq subsequently (1990) conceded the disputed territory

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Human rights advocates and political observers have drawn parallels to the 1980s, when the Iranian authorities brutally suppressed political opposition during the Iran-Iraq War.

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For Iran, this is the biggest assault on its territory since the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.

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Born in Iraq in 1967, he could have been sent to fight in the 1980s Iran-Iraq War but instead he and his parents fled Iraq and he grew up in the UK.

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He recalls an uncle who, while fighting in the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, was tasked with riding through fields of the mortally wounded, lighting his face to give dying soldiers a glimpse of an angel.

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It was considered the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and sparked intense debate in Washington over the then-Obama administration’s appetite for confronting the Assad regime.

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