What Was The Aftermath Of The Iran-Iraq War

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In July of 1988, Khomeini and the Islamic Republic officially accepted UN Resolution 598, a truce agreement between Iran and Iraq that neither named Iraq as the invader nor made either nation pay war compensations. After 8 continuous years, the war outcomes of the war were drastically destructive to both sides, Iraq and Iran. The Iran Iraq war was not only the longest war in the twentieth century; it was the last conventional war in history. Most of the war routine was made of armored and infantry battles, artillery and air strikes.

The Aftermath of the Iran-Iraqi War
The United State’s unreliable release of the Iraqi invasion of Iran, the usage of chemical and biological weapons on Iranians, the direct economic and military backing that the

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