Iran-Iraq War
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The Iran-Iraq War was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. It was commonly called the Persian Gulf War until Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The Iraq-Kuwait war, which the United States entered, later was called the Persian Gulf War or the Gulf War.
The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 after a long history of border disputes and demands for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. Iraqi forces had did well at the beginning of the war, but before long they were repelled and the conflict stabilized into a long war of with neither side gaining much ground and both sides trying to out last the other. Despite several calls for an end to the fighting by the United Nations Security Council, the two countries fought until 20 August 1988; the last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003. The war changed politics in the Middle East and world wide, and led to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The war is also noted for Iraq's use of chemical weapons and biological weapons against Iranian troops and civilians.
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