It did, of course. A main reason was the Iran-Iraq War. The September 1980 invasion by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq created a crisis that rallied Iranians around the flag. The military history of the ...
The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of ...
Cohen's justification for the Iraq War rested on two now-debunked claims: Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Ironically, he now seems to celebrate the ...
This is one of the most consequential setbacks for the Islamic Republic since the Iran-Iraq war (1980–1988). Syria offered Iran a pathway for influencing the Levant. It was its most reliable ...