Transcript Iran Iraq War

“War does not determine who is right - only who is
left.” Bertrand Russell
War
Jose Paulo Citolin Junior
“We know more about war that we know about peace,
more about killing that we know about living.” Omar
Bradley
1.5 million of innocents
killed.
More then $200 billion
invested.
Thousands of injured people.
Incalculable lives destroyed…
“Give me the money that has been spent in war
and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in
an attire of which kings and queens will be
proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley
over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside
with a place of worship consecrated to
peace.” Charles Sumner
Iran’s former leader, lost his
power during the Iranian
revolution, that transformed
Iran from an absolute monarchy
to an Islamic republic.
“Let me tell you quite bluntly that
this king business has given me
personally nothing but headaches.”
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Dictator of Iraq from 1979 until 2003,
when his regime was overthrown by a
United States-led invasion. He was hanged
after the Trials of Saddam Hussein, when
he answered for all of his crimes against
humanity.
"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things
he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”
Oscar Wilde
Iranian religious leader and politician, and
leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which
saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi. Following the revolution and a
national referendum, Khomeini became the
country's Supreme Leader—a position created
in the constitution as the highest ranking
political and religious authority of the nation—
until his death.
Iraqi spokesperson
said that Iran was
already attacking
some Iraqi towns
since September 4.
The war officially began in September 22 of 1980,
when Iraq invaded Iran, trying to conquer the land of
Shatt al-Arab.
In 1975, a militarily weaker Iraq had by treaty signed over
to Iran partial control of the waterway (Shatt al-Arab).
Iran's military was called the Middle
East's most powerful by General John
Abizaid chief of United States Central
Command (U.S. forces' commander in
the region).
In 1979, after the fall of Mohammad-Reza Shah, when Iran’s
military was weak because of the Iranian revolution, Iraq seized an
opportunity to reclaim the land of Shatt al-Arab, and tried to
conquer Khuzestan, an area known for its extensive oil fields.
The Iraqi offensive was initially
successful, capturing the port city
of Khorramshahr by the end of
1980.
Iranian resistance proved strong,
however, and Iraqi troops had
withdrawn from the occupied
portions of Iran by early 1982.
Iranian leader Ruhollah
Khomeini declared that
Iran would not cease
fighting until Saddam's
regime was toppled.
Iran begins attacking with success over Iraq, what
results in researches on chemical weapons by Iraq.
1984 – Iran’s troops
capture the oil-rich
Majnoon Islands from
Iraq.
1985 – Both sides start
to strike their
opponent’s capital.
The USA and several Western Europe
countries become active after Iranian
attacks on Kuwaiti oil tankers.
Iran’s attacks sullied it’s international reputation considerably,
making it difficult for Khomeini to obtain arms.
“If we don't end war, war will end us.” H. G.
Wells
Finally, in July, 1988, Iran was
forced to accept a United
Nations–mandated cease-fire,
once the country was being
pressed by the Iraqi attacks and
the USA influence.
Iraq’s fielding the world's fourth largest military.
IRAQ
Iraq’s ended up making the same treaty for Shatt alArab as the one of 1975.
Iraq's foreign exchange reserves, devastated its
economy, and left the country saddled with foreign debt
of more than $40 billion.
“The problem in defense is how far you can
go without destroying from within what you
are trying to defend from without.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.” Pope John Paul II
IRAN
In 1988, the United States
launched Operation Praying
Mantis against Iran, claiming that
it was retaliation for the Iranian
mining of areas of the Persian
Gulf as part of the Iran-Iraq war.
The attack neutralized Sassan oil
platform and the Sirri oil platform
of Iran.
Allies
The Arabs, and the Western Europe. the
Soviet Union was its largest supplier of
arms.
Allies
In its war effort, Iran was supported by Syria
and Libya, and received much of its weaponry
from North Korea and China, as well as from
covert arms transactions from the United
States.
If you want to know more…
“Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?” Holly Near
Iran–Iraq War in the Air 1980–1988 is a book by
Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop. The book offers a
history of the aerial warfare in the Iran–Iraq War of
1980–1988.