The Iran-Iraq War, Mapped
The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was a devastating eight-year conflict that fractured the Middle East, establishing enduring geopolitical fault lines between revolutionary Shia Iran and status quo Sunni Arab states.summaryThe war demonstrated how global superpowers, including the US and Soviet Union, prioritized weakening Iran over human rights, enabling Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons and setting the stage for future conflicts lsummaryInternational complicity enabled war crimes; the US and Soviet Union both supported Iraq to weaken Iran, with the US providing intelligence, technology, and diplomatic ties that facilitated Iraq's chemical weapons progratakeaway














