![]() Iran denounced the Iraqi regime as a "Puppet of Satan" (please recall that the Islamic Republic called the United States the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan." Make of that what you will). By 1980 Saddam was actively incorporating allusions of the Islamic conquest of Iran centuries ago. An Arab insurgency in Khuzestan began and received support from Iraq. Over the next two years, ties between the two countries deteriorated. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein took over the office of President. In 1979, the Iranian Revolution occurred the pro-Western monarchy was overthrown and replaced by a new theocratic state. Ties between the countries briefly improved. Ironically, in 1978, it was Iranian spies that informed Saddam Hussein (then vice-president) of a pro-Soviet coup plot, allowing Saddam to initiate a purge and solidify his position. The border dispute remains unsolved to this day. Iraq and Iran both supported insurgent groups in each others' territories. note That said, the Arabs of Khuzestan for the most part don't care to leave Iran, even though they have some strong connections to the Iraqi Shiite community. Iran also included territories claimed by Iraq, notably the oil-rich Khuzestan-part of which was a majority-Arab that had even previously been called "Arabstan" for quite some time. The prince proceeded to pack the Iraqi elite with fellow Sunnis, to Iran's dismay. However, the new territory had to be given to the Sunni Prince Faisal of Hejaz, to whom Britain had promised Syria and then stood idly by when France conquered it from him to create their own puppet. Iraq was created as a British puppet, with territory that was majority Shi'ite - the majority denomination in Iran - and territories that Iran claimed for itself. In accordance with the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the former Ottoman Empire was carved up with a number of moronically straight lines in the aftermath of World War I by the Entente Cordiale. ![]() Iran-Iraq rivalry, the Islamic Revolution and Saddam's ambitions ( Iraq, for understandable reasons, doesn't have much of a film industry.)įor later installments of "Persian Gulf War", see the Gulf War and the The War on Terror. in spite of its fury and length, has largely been passed over by world media, and indeed works set in it are rare these days outside of Iran. The original Gulf War, note Until the Kuwait conflict in 1990, of course, and still known as the "First Persian Gulf War", where the wars involving the United States were the Second and Third Gulf Wars. The land itself bleeds and so do we, but we fight on, this land is ours and ours alone.
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