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Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_WarThe Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Persian Gulf War, was the deadliest war of the 1980s which had been an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the 20th century's longest conventional war after the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was initially referred to in English as the "Persian Gulf War" prior to the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s.
The Iran–Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via simultaneous invasions by air and land on 22 September 1980. It followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive.
Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with Resolution 598, a U.N.-brokered ceasefire which was accepted by both sides. At the war's conclusion, it took several weeks for Iranian armed forces to evacuate Iraqi territory to honour pre-war international borders set by the 1975 Algiers Agreement. The last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003.
The war cost both sides in lives and economic damage: half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, as well as civilians, are believed to have died, with many more injured; however, the war brought neither reparations nor changes in borders. The conflict has been compared to World War I: in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across trenches, manned machine-gun posts, bayonet charges, human wave attacks across a no-man's land, and extensive use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas by the Iraqi government against Iranian troops, civilians, and Iraqi Kurds. At the time of the conflict, the U.N. Security Council issued statements that "chemical weapons had been used in the war." However, due to various outside pressures, the statements never clarified that only Iraq was using chemical weapons, and retrospective authors have claimed, "The international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian[s] as well as Iraqi Kurds."
Some old topics about Iran-Iraq war. A lot of pictures/footages in those topics are gone, so I decided to start a new thread.
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Iraqi POW:
Writing says: ''smile, brother.''
Great photos, thank you.
Great Photos as always Surenas, hopefully we get to see more.
Absolutely. Thanks x2
Excellent thread, Surenas. Thank you.
Great photos Surenas, many thanks for sharing mate
Some questions:
Captured iraqui engesa ee-9?
Against who's shooting, this helicopter?
What RPG grenade is this?
And finally, history behind this photo please? What a carnage
Your welcome guys. Thanks for the appreciation.
Was reading a bit of Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991, more specifically about Iraq's performance in the Iran-Iraq War. An interesting tidbit I came across was information about how the Iraqis used their attack helicopters. Apparently in the situations in which they did not face mass waves of Iranian infantry they would fly the helicopters within one kilometer of the front lines, fire all of their munitions in the general direction of the enemy, and then turn around and go home. As you would expect this accomplished nothing.
Absolutely excellent. Thanks a lot for sharing!
Great pictures. The faces of the soldiers are really striking when put into the context of the time period and the revolution.
Although I loved your post with the pics of Iranian women the shot of those F4s is kind of se#y too. My dad worked for GE at the time and I was always pissed that my first Thunderbird show was the year they switched to T 38s.
Cheers for the photos.......the Iran/Iraq War is probably the most underreported large scale conventional conflict of the last 100+ years.
If there were no Iran/Iraq War, there probably would have been no Persian Gulf War 1.0, 1.5 No Fly Zone Service Pack, and 2.0.
For a conflict that has spawned so many direct and indirect aftershocks around the world, it's staggering so few people even know the war occurred.
I think the Iran-Iraq War arguably has more relevance to the 21st century geopolitical mess we are living with right now than all the other 20th century conflicts combined......and so few even know about it.
Another one of those underreported conflicts of the last century is the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. On one side you had European-Guaraní mestizos and on the other an army made up of almost all aboriginals commanded by a German general.Originally Posted by Flagg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_War
M40 Gas Mask I assume? Reminds me of an Iraqi M74/85 with slightly different eye pieces until I barely noticed the filter slot on the side.
Nonetheless the rest are interesting photos. Thanks for sharing.
I believe the M40 is too new to have been used in the Iran-Iraq war. M17 perhaps?
Oops I may be a few years off.... You just might be right. After looking at the photo above and comparing it with the M17, it looks similar but the one above has different lenses or eye pieces. M17 is probably a better guess and more accurate. Maybe just a different variation of the mask.
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