POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini
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The iraq-iran war (1980-1988) and the iraq-kuwait war (1990) Gause argues that the iran-iraq war (1980-(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:890)(cid:890)(cid:524) and )raq"s )nvasion of. Prior to the iranian revolution in 1979, the relationship between iraq and. Iraq and iran has border crises/ brief wars in 1969 and 1975 but the two countries resolved the border dispute in 1975. Furthermore, prior to the revolution, 1978, iraq expelled ayatollah. Khomeini (who has been in exile from iran) After the 1979 revolution, iraq did not support the iranian revolution. And in 1980, iraq attacked iran and started the 8 year war. Iran at that time was in a position of weakness and it was still dealing with the political, economic and social turmoil of the 1979 revolution. Saddam and regime insecurity that saddam believed that: According to the gause saddam"s decision to attack can only be explained by the fact. Almost immediately following the revolution, )raq arrested )raq shi")