Posts Tagged: Iran-Iraq War

The Kurds and the Iran-Iraq War: Have the Lessons Been Learned?
The prevailing opinion among both scholars and the general public is that Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran in September 1980 out of fear...

Iran to Resist US Sanctions, Just as It Withstood Iraqi Chemical Attack: Zarif
The Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday that Iran would resist any US sanctions, just as it persevered during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war when the...

Iran Will Defeat Trump Just Like It Did Saddam, Won’t Abandon Missiles: Rouhani
US President Donald Trump will fail in his confrontation with Iran, just like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, referring to...

Outgoing Iranian Parliament Demands Compensation From US for ‘Spiritual, Material Damage’ Over Past 63 Years
The outgoing Iranian Parliament is demanding unspecified compensation from the United States for its involvement in "spiritual and material damage" for the past 63 years,...

Iran Unveils Monument to Jewish Soldiers Slayed in War With Iraq
Haaretz - Iran this week unveiled a monument to Jewish soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and saw both...

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Enemy
The idea that the enemy of my enemy is my potential ally underlies the 2014 Western policy toward Iran, the enemy of Islamic State....

Beware of Friendship With Iran
JNS.org - If you want the measure of how American policy has clumsily tailed the shifting system of alliances in the Middle East, look...

Deconstructing the Iraq And Syria Conflicts
The current escalating sectarian violence between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Iraqi forces and the unending civil war in Syria are...

U.S. Seeks Investigation of Possible Weapons Trade Between Iran and Iraq
Fox News - Iranian weapons are turning up in the Islamic Republic's former arch foe Iraq, a development one State Department official told FoxNews.com warrants...

Obama’s Strategic Mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s Opposition
It has already been established, including in my recently published book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid, that...

An Israeli-Iranian Axis? Highly Illusionary
There are those who believe that given the sweeping turmoil in the Middle East, the two most powerful non-Arab countries other than Turkey - Israel...

Is Iran Rational?
One of the most difficult questions that the West needs to answer in the year ahead is whether Iranian behavior will be influenced...