Today in History 09/22/17

Iraqi forces fire rocket launchers on the outskirts of Khorramshahr, a major Iranian supply port in 1980 (© Zuheir Saade/AP)(1980) Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invades Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran
Considered the 20th-century’s lengthiest conventional war, the Iran-Iraq War begins as Iraqi forces invade an oil-rich Iranian border area. What will follow is almost eight years of battle that claims hundreds of thousands of lives but leaves the countries’ borders virtually unchanged.
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, to August 1988. The war followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq’s Shi’ite majority, as well as Iraq’s desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Iraq planned to annex the oil-rich Khuzestan Province and the east bank of the Shatt al-Arab.
Start date: Sep 22, 1980
End date: Aug 20, 1988
Iran-Iraq war-gallery
top left: Military use of children in Iran-Iraq war. top right: Massacre Iranian Civilians by Iraqi Troops at first of Iran-Iraq War. middle left: A port quarter view of the guided missile frigate USS STARK (FFG-31) listing to port after being struck by an Iraqi-launched Exocet missile on the 17th of May 1987 middle right: Mujahedin was killed in Operation Mersad by Pasdaran in Kermanshah below left: In re-taking Khorramshahr, the Iranians captured some 19,000 soldiers from a demoralized Iraqi Army in 1982 below right: Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution & Islamic Republic of Iran Army used many zu-23 in Iran-Iraq war.

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