Why Did the Iran-Iraq War Happen?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The 22nd September 1980 marked the start of the Iran-Iraq War, a bloody 8 year conflict that claimed the lives of close to half a million people. The war would shape the geopolitics of the middle east, with the echoes of the conflict still felt to this day. In this video we look at the reasons this horrifying 8 year war between Iran and Iraq took place.
Source List
Karsh, Efraim (2002). The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988. Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-84176-371-2. OCLC 48783766.
Murray, Williamson; Woods, Kevin (2014). The Iran-Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Nelson, Chad E. (2018). "Revolution and War: Saddam's Decision to Invade Iran". Middle East Journal. 72 (2): 246-66. doi:10.3751/72.2.14. ISSN 1940-3461. S2CID 149704506.
Razoux, Pierre (2015). The Iran-Iraq War. ISBN 978-0674088634.
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Very important history being covered here by the Intel Report - appreciated on you making these high quality videos available to folks whom otherwise may not have access to such comprehensive historical knowledge.
I just thought it was about oil…thanks for the lesson as always!
Yeah, oil flow was a big part for sure, but not the only part. Some of the other issues were as reported here a bigger part of the reason for the war.
Blaming everything on oil is lazy thinking. The region has long-standing enmities that pre-date the oil industry by centuries. Persians vs. Arabs, Sunni vs Shia, Arabs vs. Kurds. History dating back to the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, old Israel, and of course the Ottoman Empire and the aftermath of WWI when the British Empire reshaped the region. Oil is just one factor.
Oil is so important it is always a consideration, but it isn't the only reason. It's a convenient scapegoat for ignorant people, and people who hate oil (natural gas companies?)
Ironically, it WAS about oil.
Specifically the 1953 coup was about the US and Britain not wanting a british oil company to have to pay too much tax to the Iranian state. So they sabotaged Iran's democracy and ensured the rise of Khomeini. Thanks, guys. Thanks a fucking lot.
Oil is only one part of the broader picture. In my opinion, the primary factor is maritime access, as Iraq has a relatively small coastline.
Every time a vid like this comes out - it’s a ritual to watch it
Now, finally, Alan Jackson can learn the difference between Iraq and Iran.
lol I have a feeling he won’t. 😂
Who's Alan Jackson?
Just so we’re on the right page you’re talking about the American country singer Alan Jackson and not some other Alan Jackson that I don’t know.
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That would be incredible. I wonder if there is enough detailed information on the operation available to make an Operation's Room level video on it.
Another excellent mini documentary.
The Iran-Iraq War is a very understudied conflict IMO
It was the last fully symmetric and conventional armed conflict before current ongoing second russo-ukrainian war. All wars that were in between were either civil wars with foreign involvement (like Yugoslavia and Syria), prolonged Vietnam-like guerilla wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) or have extreme power difference between both sides (1st Gulf War).
@@krazownik3139 Yet it was still ultimately a war between the US lead west and the USSR.
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@namenameson9065 The western equipment far superior to the soviet crap.
@@namenameson9065The Iran Iraq war really wasn’t. It was one of the very few conflicts during the Cold War were the East-West conflict played little to no role. Iran with its Anti Western and Islamist ideology was disliked by both the Soviet Union and the US.
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Are there any good, in-depth, and English videos out there on this war? Like any recommended UA-camrs or free documentaries.
Nice i was hoping you'd cover the Iran-Iraq war! A war that deserves more western coverage. I hope you talk about the subsequent tanker war and how Iraq got lots of its Chemical weapons from France, Britain and the US
Thanks for the new video! Always a masterpiece, where I, despite all my pre-existing knowledge about history, learn incredibly many new things.
Thank you for this nuanced overview of a complex subject!
I never get tired of how good you guys are at presenting the facts neutrally without buying in to obvious propaganda!
Every time I see a new upload, I know I’m about to learn something. The Iran-Iraq war is a blind spot for a lot of folks.
Such a pointless war, caused by the ego of its dictator. Thanks for covering this topic as always.
Love your videos, thanks for making them
I thought it was because Saddam called the Ayatolla a diaper head.
Was the border dispute actually that important?
“A wild ass of a man”. Still apt millennia later.
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Very informative and educational
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Another great video
nice video
Timely
I think the US overthrowing the elected government of Iran and putting the Shah into power was probably the biggest single cause for the mess in the region since the British and French drawing up the borders. So much that happened after that is the direct fallout of this.
Eisenhower seems like such a great guy, but here he did possibly the biggest crime in American foreign politics.
There have been worse.
Wrong
Oh please they created their own mess and have had decades to sort it out but haven't
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Thank you for the Video, do you mind telling me the source of some of the Videos?
especially 0:30, 1:15
Thank You!
0:30 - Fighting In The Iran-Iraq War: Internet Archive
1:15 - Wars in Peace - Iran Iraq War: Internet Archive
@@flynno Thank you appreciated!
Years ago the UA-cam channel Cut did a series were they talked to people who have killed about that experience. One of them was an Iraqi vet of this war. This was the first I had heard of the Iran Iraq war.
Why did they not mention the panarabism of Sadam Hussein? he too wanted to extend his hegemony on the neighbors countries to create a panarab state.
My father was a major, in the Iranian Royal Army, and was dismissed from the army after the mullah's invasion (1979) but he went back because of war. Still MIA after 45 years.
And no, 1953 was NOT a coup. Mossadegh betrayed Iran by dismantling the parliament. He was hoping to gift the entire country to the USSR
Great story. But did you have any good sources to read about Mossadeg plans? It's essentially portrayed as a CIA plot in the west.
Can't be ignored. The Soviets did the coup first, as usual. The western coup was more like restoring the law lol.
The most pointless war in modern history.
you'd say that but saddam was really keen of Iran's islamic revolution and really saw it as a threat, he was delusional and thought he'd easily win. However, 2 years in, saddam accepted a ceasefire but Khomeini rejected it.
That was vietnam imo
Nah the us invasion of Iraq in 2003 takes that spot for me. That war is what's caused so many of the problems today.
Iran was [is] as ethnically divided as Iraq. It's Arab, Azeri (more of the in Iran than in Azerbaijan) Jewish and Sunni minorities make it quite susceptible to divisions
Jewish Minorities?
Large jewish minoritys ecisten in many parts of the islamic world, but most of them fled/were deported in the late 40s early 50s.@@RK-cj4oc
@@RK-cj4oc There were large Jewish communities in most Muslim states - including Iran - for centuries, until things started to come off the rails in the 1980's.
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I don't believe you know what those words actually mean, but you throw them around to conveniently discredit people you don't like.
@@namenameson9065 saddam was a authoritarian dictator but I see your point
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Similar to WW1 with the German humiliation and reparations forced upon them.
But neither country was in that position.
Anyway, Versailles causing WW2 is a highly debatable topic in itself.
@@andresmartinezramos7513 debatable by people who want to propagandize and change history
@@LiviuXSA Nope. Get an education.
Not even debatable just plain *wrong*
@@andresmartinezramos7513 yes, I meant in the same nature as Versailles. These two got into it over a technicality
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