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category: "Major Conflicts"
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category: "Major Conflict"
tags:
- Event
- Iran
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- ColdWar
summary: "The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was an eight-year conflict in which Western powers, the CIA, and Gulf states covertly supported Saddam Hussein's Iraq while the Reagan administration simultaneously ran secret arms to Iran; the war produced massive casualties, extensive use of chemical weapons against Iranian and Kurdish populations, and the arms procurement networks at the center of the Iran-Contra affair."
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The Iran-Iraq War was an armed conflict fought between [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]] from September 22, 1980, to August 20, 1988. [[Saddam Hussein]]'s Iraqi forces invaded Iran along a broad front following the instability created by the [[Iranian Revolution]] of 1979, which had deposed the Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] and brought the [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Islamic Republic]] to power. The war lasted eight years, killed an estimated 500,000 to one million people, and ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire with no territorial changes. It is among the most costly conflicts of the late twentieth century.[^1]