Iran–Iraq War

The Iran Iraq War resulted in millions of casualties and billions of dollars worth of damages, with neither side benefitting in return. The prolonged war was rooted in territorial and religious disputes among the bordering nations. Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, strongly advocated for “progress under the banner of secularism and a united Arab destiny” (Ibrahim). On the other hand, Iranian leader during the war, Ayatollah Khomeini, became an activist for a fundamentalist Islamic state. The neighboring leaders lived in fear that their opponent would pose a threat to the regimes rising in their respective nations. These tensions and discrepancies ultimately lead to a war that devastated the people and infrastructure of both countries. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Iran underwent a series of revolutions fueled by Shah Mohammed Reza. The shah was eager to consolidate his position as leader of Iran and as a result, expelled many leaders…

Lasing from the September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq war was not only the longest conventional war of the 20th Century; it was also the most destructive 20th Century conflict since WWII. The conflict produced over one million refugees and casualties and costed the combatant countries as much as one billion dollars per month, and the total costs have been estimated in excess of three hundred billion dollars. The end state of the conflict was catastrophic for not only the combatants but…

The Iran – Iraq war started in 1980. It was one of the longest wars in the Middle East at that time. Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq and Ruhollah Khomeini was the Iranian leader. An air invasion kicked off the war on September 22nd from the Iraqis. While some debate that the U.S. helped Iraq win the war, Saddam Hussein is the main reason for a lot of people dying during the war. He used chemical weapons against Iran as well as fellow Iraqis, which resulted in over one million…

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…

happened to you? These questions are what you have forgotten to ask yourselves as you fight. You have forgotten the purpose of this war and to what better days it was supposed to bring you. We are living in a time of financial and social crisis. People all around us are suffering. Parents are losing their jobs. Families are losing their homes. Companies are losing their profits. And everyone standing before me, are going through this as well . I know I did. Thinking back to when one was…

the Middle East was no exception. In this region, political, ethnic, and religious identity issues created civil wars, regional wars, and fluctuating relationships with the great powers, leading to hostile political relationships and political instability among Middle Eastern countries. Disagreements on how to govern newly-formed Middle Eastern countries led to significant political division, even within similar groups, in certain cases. Arab countries, for example, struggled to unify because…

with health problems like blindness, lung problems, mental issues, or heart problems. During WWII Adolf Hitler set jews in gas chambers. Gas chambers were described as rooms that were airtight in which tons of jews were forced into to be murdered. These chambers then released tons of toxins thus suffocating the jews leaving them to die due to the poisonous gas in the air they couldn’t escape from. Hitler used this as a quick and effective ways to try and eliminate the jews. The Sarin gas attack…

In the graphic novel Persepolis, the author Marjane Satrapi used many deep and interesting symbols throughout the book to illustrate many turning points in Satrapi’s life in Iran. She was born in Rasht, Iran, on November 22 1969, however she grew up in Tehran in an ordinary middle-class family. She went to school in a private French school which gave her opportunity to be more open-minded than strict Iranians. She lived a peaceful childhood life under the Shah’s power until she was around 11…

Persepolis is a graphic novel, and it was created by the very skilled author Marjane Sarapi. Marjane Sarapi was bon in1969 in Rasht, Iran. Marjane Sarapi grow up in Iran and then she moved to Vienna running from the war and continuing her education. At the mean time Marjane Sarapi lives in Paris. Marjane Sarapi is very well known in writhing children books and her work was published in the most famous newspapers and magazines such as Los Angles Times, Time, USA Today, The New Yorkers, and New…

attempting to repeat the success of the Israeli pre-emptive air strike against the Arab air forces in the Six Day War, launched numerous sorties against Iranian airfields, hoping to destroy the Iranian air force on the ground. Although they failed, Saddam was still not going to be stopped from achieving his aim of establishing complete Iraqi dominance over the Shatt al-Arab waterway. He launched a land invasion of Iran, focusing on southern Iran. He was able to achieve success, capturing the…