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Gotta love how things went to shit for Iraq the second the Iranians pulled all their officers and pilots from the Shah era out of prison and put them back into the military
Best combat pilots of the legendary F-14 came from this war. First thrown into prison and about to be executed, then Saddam starts his own special military operation and suddenly they are heroes. Might cause some "Dude wtf was that" effect.
Most pointless war ever fought. WW1 at least accomplished something like the downfall of multiple empires. Literally nothing changed this war, a bunch of people died for nothing.
China and the US: *pointing Spider-Man meme* North Korea: “I don’t care if we communists win. I just want their communists to lose.” Soviet Union: “…wtf”
"China, which had no direct stake in the victory of either side and whose interests in the war were entirely commercial, freely sold arms to both sides.[120]" the real winners of the war
Norinco sold machine guns and RPG's to LA gangbangers at the height of the crack epidemic. They would probably sell weapons to Ukraine if they could pony up the cash
@@hellomoto2084 and then all the profit went to americans and israelites because kurds were starting to kill Turks and feto was near established then xD
if we see the long game , iran was the winner , as the removal of saddam later with the state the US occupation left the country in bassicaly gave Iraq to become a puppet state of iran in its sphere of influence today
Iran-Iraq war has to be the goofiest war ever: -A military dictatorship against a religious cult-led dictatorship (no morally superior side to support) -Iraq has superior land forces, while Iran has superior air forces while both of them are dogshit at naval combat -Iraq starts the war to capture Arab majority Iranian lands -They don't have the air superiority, starts invading anyway -They are faced with child soldiers -Iraqis are outnumbered -Iraq fails the invasion they started -Iraq wants peace -“Fuck you and peace, we will invade you now” -Iran doesn’t have the clear land superiority, starts invading anyway -They are faced with chemical warfare -Despite the fact that Iran is much larger and have orders of magnitude more people, they are somehow outnumbered by Iraqis -They fail miserably -Both sides bomb each other -Iranians start supporting Kurds (an Iranian ethnic group) to invade Iraq, reflecting how Iraqis were after Arab lands of Iran -Americans support Iraq, a country they would invade twice in the following years -Supporting sides get extremely confusing -Half of Iranian navy is blown up by Americans for some reason -Arab monarchies who Iraq would invade and try to invade in the following years support Iraq -Non-monarchy and non-shia baathist Arab brethren Syria is supporting Iran instead of non-monarchy baathist Arab Iraq for some reason -No one wins -Both sides claim victory -Absolutely nothing is achieved at the cost of a horrible war.
The US supported both sides of the war, and the USSR and the US both supported Iraq, all in the while Iran had that superior airpower due to US jets in the F14 and US pilot training.
imagine being electrocuted in swamp somewhere in the middle east only for some youtube to describe your death with a clip from home alone lol history has entered a weird and interesting stage
It’s always been chilling to me whenever I read about the human wave attacks by Iran in this conflict. I mean, there were kids as young as *11* charging Iraqi lines!
Iran had plenty of tanks: Challys, I believe Centurions, and a couple American models even late into the war. What they did not have was trained tank crews. The tanks got shredded by the Iraqis.
Such is the the power of delusion. They thought they would go to heaven if they died. They weren't fighting because their government said so, they were god's fighters against the devil. That is why even very young children were running away from their homes to get slaughtered on the frontlines. Religion is a sickness to the rational mind. Control it, and you can have waves of brainless zombies at your command.
I am from the Balkans and as fucked up as we are, with all the ethnic conflicts, the war crimes, the Balkan and Yugoslav wars, we are the peak of peacefull coexistence compared to the Middle East. Those guys are hardcore even for us. Hope they find their peace too like we did.
This war really stands out compared to most wars in the region, the supporters aren't clear cut along the lines of pro/anti west, pro/anti zionism, or socialist vs capitalist
@@lonefish8128it wasn't between shia and sunni, there were plenty of sunni fighting for iran and plenty of shia fighting for iraq. It was a battle to lead the arab world, one by claiming nationalism and the other by claiming islam, and neither side succeded then.
The funny thing is, there is one country in the Middle East starting with the letter I that facilitates and benefits from all this violence. Hint: it isn’t Iran, and it isn’t Iraq
It was the biggest seaport on the sea in the gulf (and will be in the future when they complete the Faw port), in the most strategic region in the world (Persian gulf) so it’s not that useless
@@uberfeel saddam thought that if he attacked Iran then the whole Arab world would just rally behind him and join the war, instead the gulf countries (because they are cowards) just threw money at him (like they do with every problem) and didn’t do anything. Saddam’s war was built on the idea of repulsion, to repulse the idea of the Islamic revolution which was born in Iran and stop it from reaching Iraq or further into the Middle East, Iran’s goal was to spread the revolution. Iran at this time was in a time of weakness, saddam knew that if he didn’t strike at this moment then Iran would only get stronger and they might strike him first, so he decided to go all in and take khuzestan (a province in Iran full of Arabs and oil) to try and strangle the Iranian exports and imports to make their economy collapse and have the Iranian then rise up against the leadership because of the poor condition of living, but he didn’t think that the Iranian government would throw everything they could at him (including child soldiers) so the war got into a stalemate. Btw I’m Iraqi from Basra, the city which got most of the fighting during the war and the one that was the primary goal of Iran to capture, so you can ask me anything if you want.
You know that only in World War II, 40 million to 50 million died, in which the West participated, most of whom embraced the religion of whoever hits you on the cheek, show him the other cheek, right?
@@hudaythfamahmood1831they try to copy america and Soviet but they forgot usa, Soviet killed foreign people Saudi Irani killed thier own people muslims lol
@@ibraheemketh9193by that logic, that the results of the war were sorta undone years later in another war, you should count what the situation is ultimately, because the commie block fell years ago.
probably they still tolerate Christians, and Iraq has quite a lot of Christians (1.4 millions in 1987 census). They were still treated harshly tho, especially around 1988, which is during the Anfal campaign where 2000 Christians were cleansed, around the end of Iraq-Iran war
Don't ask what Santa did during the Iran Iraq war. The civilians can still remember the explosive gifts dropping from the skies. Rudolph the reindeer still hasn't been put to justice for his crimes against humanity
Yeah, but it's unfortunately so irrelevant at the grand scheme of things, even for Iran and Iraq. What did both sides learn anyway that could benefit an average high schooler or elementary student and still be relevant for their future careers that don't involve the military? WW1 at least could tell how the war caused the downfall of the old empires, the weakening of colonialism, and the rise of nationalism and communism.
The empires were falling with or without WW1. And the ones that stayed (UK and Turkey) are still fracking around so this war was pointless. @@imgvillasrc1608
@@imgvillasrc1608 This is the direct cause of the first Gulf war (Iraq invaded Kuwait to try and pay its debt). There were no winners, no territorial changes, but there were plenty of consequences. This war pretty much shaped the modern history of the Levant.
iraqis goal was to stop revolution from getting into iraq and iraq succeed 😂😂😂😂Tawakalna ala Allah Operations ended everything iraqis wiped off 1 million iranains crushed iranain army Complete elimination of Iranian forces in Iraq (liberating 4,400sq.km) Renewed Iraqi invasion of Iran, resulting in the capture of dozens of towns (occupying 9,600sq.km) Iran's submission to a United Nations resolution regarding a ceasefire with Iraq, ultimately leading to the end of the Iran-Iraq War. The Iranian failure during the Karbala Campaign of the previous year had dented the Iranian military's manpower, supplies, and morale, and as a result increasing numbers of Iranians were turning against the war. This meant that the Iranian military's mobilization attempt for a renewed offensive against Iraq in 1988 had failed. The Iranian military leadership had also decided at a major strategic conference that the Iranian troops had to undertake extensive retraining and rearming in order to defeat Iraq, which could in turn take up to 5 years. As a result, Iran did not make any new attempts to invade Iraq in 1988. Iraqi forces regain control over all Iraqi territory previously held by Iranian forces, and launch a series of offensives into Iran leading to the capture of dozens of towns along the border These speedy Iraqi attacks took the Iranians by surprise and sent them into a state of confusion; they found themselves surrounded by Iraqi troops on all sides and lost all control over their forces. Thus this large-scale operation ended with the liberation of all occupied Iraqi territories. The Iranian troops in the various sectors involved in the operation had received a fatal blow; their various headquarters and formations had virtually ceased to exist. During the 1988 battles, the Iranians put up little resistance to the Iraqi offensives, having been worn out by nearly eight years of war. They lost large amounts of equipment; and 20,000 Iranian troops had been taken prisoner of war throughout the course of the operations. It was the operation that effectively ended the war, and it represented a clear Iraqi victory over the Iranian forces. The Iraqis carried out their missions quickly, efficiently, and with full coordination.[6] In the fall of 1988, the Iraqis displayed in Baghdad captured Iranian weapons amounting to more than three-quarters (75%) of the Iranian armor inventory and almost half of its artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers. On 2 July, Iran belatedly set up a joint central command which unified the Revolutionary Guard, Army, and Kurdish rebels, and dispel the rivalry between the Army and the Revolutionary Guard. However this came too late, and Iran was believed to have fewer than 200 remaining tanks on the southern front, faced against thousands of Iraqi tanks With the Iranian Army in retreat, various elements of the Iranian leadership, led by Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (who had initially pushed for the extension of the war), persuaded Khomeini to sue for peace due to Iran's almost non-existent morale and impending bankruptcy. On 20 July 1988, Iran accepted Resolution 598, showing its willingness to accept a ceasefire,] and on 20 August 1988, peace was officially restored After a series of battles, in which Iraq had emerged as the victor, the leadership in Baghdad stated that they no longer desired to conquer Iranian territory. The success of the Iraqi armed forces had convinced the clerics of Iran that they could not attain their objectives on the field of battle and to accept the ceasefire. iraq actually won now a iraqi runs and owns iran half of iran government are of iraqi origin such as ail Khamenei he was born in iraq najaf his father and mother were born in iraq Khamenei passport the real one was exposed by iranains and now a iraqi will run for president of iran in elections
@@someboi4535look attack helicopters used by iraq was mi 24 hind , of soviet onion and Iranians used cobra helicopters of the usa . These both carry air to air missiles, which many folks overlook as they only think of these as tank Busters . But they do carry air to air missiles. Hence they did shoot eact other many times , many times. Source : iran iraq war by pierrie razoux , that book is the authority on this war . It examines every every aspect of this war , like Iranians shared data of osirik reactor with Israel after their own air attack on the reactor before Israelis did.
It also completely won the people’s support because despite doing the most fucked up unislamic shit ever, they made Iran come out of the war alive despite being outclassed in almost everything. And for the people that was good enough (until the mid 2000s then the lost a shit ton of support)
Iran is a Shia state and had become one there where things that they have accepted that Islam does not allow also there war tactics go against the Islamic war rules the same can be said to Iraq however they are a sunni state despite going against some sunni opinion on what to do when in war @@someboi4535
@@souvikrc4499 Have things gone differently - North Korea could have been another South Korea too Thank the "multipolar world" that China and Russia wants to make
“Oh, things and world was so much better in (insert decade)” 1950 - Koreans: No 1960 - Vietnamese: No 1970 - Jews, Cambodians and Vietnamese: NO!!! 1980 - Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians: No 1990 - Jugoslavians: No! 2000 - Iraqis and Afghanians again: No! 2010 - Syrians: Hell no!! 2020 - Ukrainians: No
@@capncake8837 Im Iraqi and half of my family men fought in the River Jassim battle or the river of blood, they all said the same thing, the water in the river was no longer visible because the river was filled with corpses, when the battle began a storm hit and the horrible weather conditions meant no air support for both sides, the odds were extremely uncertain, for a couple of hours the battle was man Vs man, their stories were wild.
I feel so bad for the Mossadegh supporters, all they wanted to do was nationalize their oil to make the nation not be third world and they got purged by the Shah and later the Ayatollah before having to do Middle Eastern WW1.
Moderate Muslim Iran (A government that probably be like Modern Day Tunisia or Azerbaijan) just became a fantasy. They had Progressive Extremism then Conservative Extremism, both are equally awful in different forms.
@@souvikrc4499 Not exactly, they supported corrupt authoritarian military officers to try and overthrow the democratic government. MI6 failed but the CIA took over and succeeded. The islamists were opposed to the military and got their support from people who were angry at the coup. The main reason they did it was because they were bribed by the oil companies.
There should have been the meme of. Iran: *Launches Operation Victory* Iraq: Panik Result: *It failed* Iraq: Kalm Iran: *Launches Operation UNDENIABLE Victory* Iraq: *PANIK*
CURIOUS FACT: Brazil (during military dictatorship) also gave support to Iraq by selling some light tanks and armored cars in exchange for their knowledge in nuclear energy (and possibly nukes), which prompted other western nations to place an embargo that worsened our economic crisis, all while the U.S sold missiles to Iran (already an official enemy of the West) in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. That wasn't the last time the U.S screwed our businesses in a hypocrite move, there was also the dispute between a brazilian MBT who was about to be sold to the Saudis, but the U.S convinced them to switch to the Abrahms.
The Brazilian CIA (SNI at the time) was smugling uranium to the Iraquis to. But since the Military dictatorship was run by morons the plan was discoverd by the press of all people.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwasuperior training>superior machine, you can have the best aircraft in the world if it piloted by people who only got 12h of fly per month
They are using it because they have no budget to upgrade it xD Teh F14 got demolished during this war even though it went up against mostly much older MiG-21s. The fact that Iraqi aircraft traded positively in the air war is a miracle
Iran-Iraq was was pretty much a modern Spanish civil war, in that it was a conflict used by various powers to put their new technologies to the test. Iran got the F-14 Tomcat and was able to use BVR combat to boop the soviet jets used by the iraqi's out of the sky. Meanwhile on the ground the Iraqi's using soviet T-62's were able to absolutely destroy the British Supplied Chieftain, as it's armor scheme was designed around withstanding the T54/55's 100mm tank gun.
The war will be over by Ramadan they say but in reality the war is fought for so long that "The Final Offensive" is the name of second last offensive and the real last offensive is just simply named "We Put Trust In God" offensive. The worst of it, the result is "status quo ante bellum"
At one point, the Iranians also launched Operation Victory, which failed. Instead of changing tactics or something, they just renamed it “Operation Undeniable Victory“ and did the same thing again, but with more soldiers, and I think it actually worked that time. 😂
Longest masterorolfness video I've ever seen, this war was crazy and unbelievable how much shit was sunk into the ground for nothing. Insane. Love your content 🎉
In iran we called sepah the meat wall cause they didnt had any tactics they just send waves of people to their death , but in ARMY when officers from shah era released they totally changed the whole war if you were lucky enough to get drafted in army you had chance but if you doomed to sepah it was just death sentence
Eh, not really. We mainly supported Iraq, but Reagan did secretly (and illegally) sell those missiles to Iran. It wasn’t an outright case of selling to both sides like what China did. It was shady government shenanigans that weren’t meant to be known.
Fun fact: at one point in the war, the Iranian civilian volunteers, which often consisted of children, would sometimes be driven directly to the battlefield on busses. They were not all properly equipped, meaning they would have to scavenge from the battlefield if they needed a weapon.
by the end of the war Iraq didn't even have an air force , also 150 aircrafts defected to Iran , the MIg 23 that shot the -14 was a pilot defecting which doesn't really count since the iraqis already knew he was coming with nothing loaded, an excuse to make them look good even though they lost
Most of the West's light, simple conflicts have a religion: whoever hits you on the cheek, show him the other cheek, is like the First and Second World Wars:
Crazy how I literally went deep into Iran Iraq war facts on Wikipedia the day prior and you dropped this video, of which I already read all the info lol. Feels weird 😅
For those who say this war doesn't have any winner, remember that the consequences of this war led to Saddam's downfall and now Iraq is under Iranian proxy control.
Yeah but that doesn’t have anything to do with this war. Iraq came out very strong after this war. Let’s not attribute America’s and NATO’s two wars overthrowing the Ba’athists to the majoos who failed to take even Basra
@@dragon888193ftw it had everything to do actually. As previous comment said Iraq owed a great amount of debt but that's not all. The use of WMDs on Iran and ethnic-cleansing of kurds gave a very strong excuse to convince people Saddam is a cruel war criminal and needs to be put down. Also Iraq didn't come out very strong, it barely escaped because of direct intervention of USA who wanted to finish the job itself. Do you think if Iraq was still as strong as before the Iran-Iraq war, USA would truly attack it because of KUWAIT, when US didn't do anything about Iraq where it was a Main player in 6 day war?! Don't be stupid, Saddam's Iraq hated Jews more than anything and all of these plays were just political plays to trap and destroy it which happened just perfectly.
@@ShubhamMishrabro Iran was even in a worse shape economically than Iraq. Don’t mix things up. Iraq came out so strong that the Ba’athist leadership truly thought that they could annex Kuwait and that NATO won’t bother to attack
Fun fact: The first war in history was fought between Iran and Iraq (Elam and Sumer). This region has been through wars for millennia, fought by different polities and groups of people.
As an iranian watching this and being able to laugh it makes me truly happy that not only is the war behind us, but now the iraqis and iranians have achieved positive and constructive peace(allbeit with heavy iranian meddling) but today the borders are open, the people see each other with sympathy, economic ties are flourishing. Love to all my Iraqis out there!
@@Techtalk2030Iraq Decisively Won This War And Humiliated A Country Many Times Larger And With A Lot More Manpower Than Its Own...🤣🤣🤣 No Such Thing As "persians" iranians Learn Arabic In School And Worship Arab Leaders. Arabs Don't. iran Is An Arab Province... iran Begs Iraq For Money, Without Iraq iranians Can't Eat...😂😂😂 Even In This State Iraq Is A Million Times Better Than iran And Much Mucb Richer...🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@SiPakRubahIraq 2005 : well at least this invasion would not lead to a huge consequence that will lead our country and other of the middle east in pure chaos
iraqis goal was to stop revolution from getting into iraq and iraq succeed 😂😂😂😂Tawakalna ala Allah Operations ended everything iraqis wiped off 1 million iranains crushed iranain army Complete elimination of Iranian forces in Iraq (liberating 4,400sq.km) Renewed Iraqi invasion of Iran, resulting in the capture of dozens of towns (occupying 9,600sq.km) Iran's submission to a United Nations resolution regarding a ceasefire with Iraq, ultimately leading to the end of the Iran-Iraq War. The Iranian failure during the Karbala Campaign of the previous year had dented the Iranian military's manpower, supplies, and morale, and as a result increasing numbers of Iranians were turning against the war. This meant that the Iranian military's mobilization attempt for a renewed offensive against Iraq in 1988 had failed. The Iranian military leadership had also decided at a major strategic conference that the Iranian troops had to undertake extensive retraining and rearming in order to defeat Iraq, which could in turn take up to 5 years. As a result, Iran did not make any new attempts to invade Iraq in 1988. Iraqi forces regain control over all Iraqi territory previously held by Iranian forces, and launch a series of offensives into Iran leading to the capture of dozens of towns along the border These speedy Iraqi attacks took the Iranians by surprise and sent them into a state of confusion; they found themselves surrounded by Iraqi troops on all sides and lost all control over their forces. Thus this large-scale operation ended with the liberation of all occupied Iraqi territories. The Iranian troops in the various sectors involved in the operation had received a fatal blow; their various headquarters and formations had virtually ceased to exist. During the 1988 battles, the Iranians put up little resistance to the Iraqi offensives, having been worn out by nearly eight years of war. They lost large amounts of equipment; and 20,000 Iranian troops had been taken prisoner of war throughout the course of the operations. It was the operation that effectively ended the war, and it represented a clear Iraqi victory over the Iranian forces. The Iraqis carried out their missions quickly, efficiently, and with full coordination.[6] In the fall of 1988, the Iraqis displayed in Baghdad captured Iranian weapons amounting to more than three-quarters (75%) of the Iranian armor inventory and almost half of its artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers. On 2 July, Iran belatedly set up a joint central command which unified the Revolutionary Guard, Army, and Kurdish rebels, and dispel the rivalry between the Army and the Revolutionary Guard. However this came too late, and Iran was believed to have fewer than 200 remaining tanks on the southern front, faced against thousands of Iraqi tanks With the Iranian Army in retreat, various elements of the Iranian leadership, led by Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (who had initially pushed for the extension of the war), persuaded Khomeini to sue for peace due to Iran's almost non-existent morale and impending bankruptcy. On 20 July 1988, Iran accepted Resolution 598, showing its willingness to accept a ceasefire,] and on 20 August 1988, peace was officially restored After a series of battles, in which Iraq had emerged as the victor, the leadership in Baghdad stated that they no longer desired to conquer Iranian territory. The success of the Iraqi armed forces had convinced the clerics of Iran that they could not attain their objectives on the field of battle and to accept the ceasefire. iraq actually won now a iraqi runs and owns iran half of iran government are of iraqi origin such as ail Khamenei he was born in iraq najaf his father and mother were born in iraq Khamenei passport the real one was exposed by iranains and now a iraqi will run for president of iran in elections
Lol the biggest surprise was Israel supporting Iran but knowing who Israel kept advocating to overthrow in the following years it makes sense. They really didn't like the Iraqi government.
One of the things that really gave the iranians an edge on air warfare is the fact that their planes, for the most part, were capable of launching accurate Over the Horizon Attacks, which pretty much allowed them to pelt iraqi air formations with accurate missiles without fear of repercussions
2:54 - The frontline stalls so they end up using tanks as artillery and have trenches. Wait….I’ve seen this before recently… 🤔😅 War. War never changes.
@@AGENTtoaster-eg4juyes, israel sold F14 parts and missiles and coordinated strikes with the Iranian air force on the nuclear power plant that Iraq had (first country in the Islamic world to have one)
@@auditorium.1922bullshit. Iraq was supported by almost all SuperPowers in the world including Warsaw pact and nato. Also China and it's Neighboring countries.
@@Robbiehans Apart from nominal support the only ones who actually supplied Iraq were the westerners, Iran got tons of weapons thanks to the Iran-Contra affair and got Israeli weapons.
Fun fact: During Eurovision in this year, Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan sang Aman Petrol(oh petrol!) in scene. Actually it was about 1979 petrol crisis but eventually it changed to iran iraq's war. Critizing Western Europeans and North America for their hunger to petrol.
Ah yes, because it was the US and western Europe that was responsible for Iraq invading Iran. Or for Iran overthrowing their decent government and replacing it with a corrupt theocracy
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It was truly crazy to read about that the mustard gas and trench warfare made comebacks during this conflict
Entire history of sicily
Iran ownes Iraq so it won in the end!
Did you know that anybody can create own history events in Wikipedia...
@@vladimirdanyuk5692 you need legitimate sources
Gotta love how things went to shit for Iraq the second the Iranians pulled all their officers and pilots from the Shah era out of prison and put them back into the military
Yep but tbf both nations had a habit of either executing or imprisoning military leaders of former leadership.
Best combat pilots of the legendary F-14 came from this war.
First thrown into prison and about to be executed, then Saddam starts his own special military operation and suddenly they are heroes.
Might cause some "Dude wtf was that" effect.
@@Wfalen Bruh the F14 got absolutely demolished during this war. It barely competed with the MiG-21 and got put to shame by the legendary MiG-25
@@dwarow2508they made absolutely NO claim about the efficacy of the F-14, he said the PILOTS.
Work on your reading comprehension.
@@scallie6462
He said "legendary" F14 which IS a claim about the efficacy of the F14.
Work on your reading comprehension.
You realize this is a truly serious conflict when MasterofRoflness makes a video about it longer than 3 minutes...
he is iranian soo......
@@officer_millertrue, but it was also a very important war regardless, as it directly led to the events that triggered the first gulf war
@@ahhno4662then the rest is History
This war is where all the current day conflicts in middle East find their origin
Cuz he’s Iranian
Most pointless war ever fought. WW1 at least accomplished something like the downfall of multiple empires.
Literally nothing changed this war, a bunch of people died for nothing.
Welcome to the Middle East!
Iran-Iraq ( 1980 - 1988 ) = origin story of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990) AND Two Gulf Wars !!!
@@aleksandarvil5718I’m curious if Saddam would have invaded Kuwait if the war ended in 1982
"Bunch" is an understatement. More than a million people died in this war.
@@aleksandarvil5718 it was the Saddam Hussein prequel
China and the US: *pointing Spider-Man meme*
North Korea: “I don’t care if we communists win. I just want their communists to lose.”
Soviet Union: “…wtf”
NATO : Why am i here , idk what’s going on
*Decisive US-North Korea victory*
Portugal: Guns get ya guns here pay in cash get ya guns!
Don't forget that Vietnam also supply Iran with captured ARVN Hueys during that time.
@@brendon1689north korea was supporting iran, while soviets and usa were supporting iraq.... wtf was even this war?
Average day in middle east but more deadly
*Average day in the Middle East but about as deadly as usual
As someone from middle east i agree
@@MaxMatador673 it's not your average day when the combatants launched SCUDs on cities and chemical barrage to clear the way for human wave assault
It was a degree hotter that day
middle east used to live in peace until someone discovered America
and they say the Balkan is a crazy place
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The balkans is just a ripoff of the Middle East
Crazy by European standards.
Lol fuck me
@@davidmoore1253
"European standards" WW2&WW1💀
"China, which had no direct stake in the victory of either side and whose interests in the war were entirely commercial, freely sold arms to both sides.[120]"
the real winners of the war
Turkey was the real winner , since it sold Iraqi oil via dortyol pipeline and earned billions.
@@hellomoto2084 And Turkey would also have business interests in Iran during the 90s and 2000s.
Norinco sold machine guns and RPG's to LA gangbangers at the height of the crack epidemic. They would probably sell weapons to Ukraine if they could pony up the cash
@@hellomoto2084 and then all the profit went to americans and israelites because kurds were starting to kill Turks and feto was near established then xD
if we see the long game , iran was the winner , as the removal of saddam later with the state the US occupation left the country in bassicaly gave Iraq to become a puppet state of iran in its sphere of influence today
Iran-Iraq war has to be the goofiest war ever:
-A military dictatorship against a religious cult-led dictatorship (no morally superior side to support)
-Iraq has superior land forces, while Iran has superior air forces while both of them are dogshit at naval combat
-Iraq starts the war to capture Arab majority Iranian lands
-They don't have the air superiority, starts invading anyway
-They are faced with child soldiers
-Iraqis are outnumbered
-Iraq fails the invasion they started
-Iraq wants peace
-“Fuck you and peace, we will invade you now”
-Iran doesn’t have the clear land superiority, starts invading anyway
-They are faced with chemical warfare
-Despite the fact that Iran is much larger and have orders of magnitude more people, they are somehow outnumbered by Iraqis
-They fail miserably
-Both sides bomb each other
-Iranians start supporting Kurds (an Iranian ethnic group) to invade Iraq, reflecting how Iraqis were after Arab lands of Iran
-Americans support Iraq, a country they would invade twice in the following years
-Supporting sides get extremely confusing
-Half of Iranian navy is blown up by Americans for some reason
-Arab monarchies who Iraq would invade and try to invade in the following years support Iraq
-Non-monarchy and non-shia baathist Arab brethren Syria is supporting Iran instead of non-monarchy baathist Arab Iraq for some reason
-No one wins
-Both sides claim victory
-Absolutely nothing is achieved at the cost of a horrible war.
Both got rekt lol.
Iran is the defender so maybe they are morally superior
The US supported both sides of the war, and the USSR and the US both supported Iraq, all in the while Iran had that superior airpower due to US jets in the F14 and US pilot training.
Hamburger
Sorry to be that guy but there's nothing goofy about war
Incredible, a lot has happened, but nothing changed.
Uhm akshually, it debt-trapped Iraq so Saddam went on to invade Kuwait to pay it off and the rest is history 🤓
"There is nothing new under the sun" - King Solomon of Judah
@@christianriddler5063based
“The more things change, the more they stay the same”
youre a moron if you think nothing has changed
“Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?”
-Bilbo Baggins, *Lord of War*
Bilbo Baggins!! The nuke is still in your arsenal.
- Gandalf, 2003
@@AngusMcFife-sd8cm That’s actually a good analogy. 😂
Most peaceful disagreement in the Middle East.
most peaceful diagreement funded and fueled by western powers
It's the Balkan of Asia 😂
imagine being electrocuted in swamp somewhere in the middle east only for some youtube to describe your death with a clip from home alone lol history has entered a weird and interesting stage
Postmodernism bruh
Home Alone 2, in fact
Crazy fucking world we live in huh?
Everybody has become a clown and everything is turned into a joke these days. Airheaded autistic generation.
4:41 Reagan looks FLABBERGASTED 💀
Alzheimer's induced amnesia kicking in: "Did we really do that? I can't remember."
Reagan got caught red-commie-handed.
He was seeing the ghosts of all the people he would indirectly kill at that moment
he's got that mog stare like
“Oh shit, my actions have consequences?”
It’s always been chilling to me whenever I read about the human wave attacks by Iran in this conflict.
I mean, there were kids as young as *11* charging Iraqi lines!
By that point of the war it was just a struggle of complete desperation.
Iran had plenty of tanks: Challys, I believe Centurions, and a couple American models even late into the war.
What they did not have was trained tank crews. The tanks got shredded by the Iraqis.
Such is the the power of delusion. They thought they would go to heaven if they died. They weren't fighting because their government said so, they were god's fighters against the devil. That is why even very young children were running away from their homes to get slaughtered on the frontlines.
Religion is a sickness to the rational mind. Control it, and you can have waves of brainless zombies at your command.
@@DonVigaDeFierro Iran had Chieftains mk3/5, M60a1s and Type 59s. They also used captured iraqi T-55s for some reason.
They chosed to fight themselves
*As chaotic as the Balkans may be, it can’t even hold a candle to the Middle East historically speaking.*
In Balkans you have enemies Then you have allies
In Middle East you have enemies
Then you have mutual enemies
@@striker7625 and in both you have guys with goats and tea hanging around
@@striker7625 You're so real for this
I am from the Balkans and as fucked up as we are, with all the ethnic conflicts, the war crimes, the Balkan and Yugoslav wars, we are the peak of peacefull coexistence compared to the Middle East. Those guys are hardcore even for us.
Hope they find their peace too like we did.
Central Africa(1990's to 2010's): NU UH
electrical wires in a swamp. Damn
War crime.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa skill issue
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa show me what law that breaks.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa There many ways to war crime and this isn't one of them.
@@aymanayad7230skill issue what Iran does to iraq now i guess hehe
This war really stands out compared to most wars in the region, the supporters aren't clear cut along the lines of pro/anti west, pro/anti zionism, or socialist vs capitalist
for middle-eastern supporters it was a war between shias and sunnis, for outside supporters it was about making a fortune out of weapon sales
@@lonefish8128it wasn't between shia and sunni, there were plenty of sunni fighting for iran and plenty of shia fighting for iraq. It was a battle to lead the arab world, one by claiming nationalism and the other by claiming islam, and neither side succeded then.
In the end gulf States became most influential with Iran in second@@Mitthradata
"I don't know what they're doing so i must yeet"
The funny thing is, there is one country in the Middle East starting with the letter I that facilitates and benefits from all this violence.
Hint: it isn’t Iran, and it isn’t Iraq
If you ever feel useless, remember this war was fought over a sea port.
It was the biggest seaport on the sea in the gulf (and will be in the future when they complete the Faw port), in the most strategic region in the world (Persian gulf) so it’s not that useless
@@bigchungus6320 Yeah, but still a million people, a whole decade and a whole generation got wasted for a sea port?
@@uberfeel saddam thought that if he attacked Iran then the whole Arab world would just rally behind him and join the war, instead the gulf countries (because they are cowards) just threw money at him (like they do with every problem) and didn’t do anything.
Saddam’s war was built on the idea of repulsion, to repulse the idea of the Islamic revolution which was born in Iran and stop it from reaching Iraq or further into the Middle East, Iran’s goal was to spread the revolution. Iran at this time was in a time of weakness, saddam knew that if he didn’t strike at this moment then Iran would only get stronger and they might strike him first, so he decided to go all in and take khuzestan (a province in Iran full of Arabs and oil) to try and strangle the Iranian exports and imports to make their economy collapse and have the Iranian then rise up against the leadership because of the poor condition of living, but he didn’t think that the Iranian government would throw everything they could at him (including child soldiers) so the war got into a stalemate.
Btw I’m Iraqi from Basra, the city which got most of the fighting during the war and the one that was the primary goal of Iran to capture, so you can ask me anything if you want.
@@uberfeel yes human life is cheep.
"sea port" - that region holds the most oil that can be found in one place
least bloodiest war in the middle east:
You must’ve not heard of the Iran-Saudi Cold War which is fought by proxies in Yemen.
Let’s not talk about the least bloody war the west had lmao
You know that only in World War II, 40 million to 50 million died, in which the West participated, most of whom embraced the religion of whoever hits you on the cheek, show him the other cheek, right?
@@kiuk_kiksYes, they follow the example of America and the Soviets
@@hudaythfamahmood1831they try to copy america and Soviet but they forgot usa, Soviet killed foreign people Saudi Irani killed thier own people muslims lol
Ww1 middle east edition
Nope. Thanks to WW1 half of Europe regained independence.
@@ohajohaha
Yeah.... then more than half of them got occupied by the soviets a few years later
@@ibraheemketh9193by that logic, that the results of the war were sorta undone years later in another war, you should count what the situation is ultimately, because the commie block fell years ago.
WW1 Mideast edition is just the Middle East campaign of WW1.
All quiet in the eastern front😅
6:26 I'm sorry, is that fucking Santa Claus?
yes
@@hmm398 i thought muslim countries dont celebrate Christmas
probably they still tolerate Christians, and Iraq has quite a lot of Christians (1.4 millions in 1987 census). They were still treated harshly tho, especially around 1988, which is during the Anfal campaign where 2000 Christians were cleansed, around the end of Iraq-Iran war
Don't ask what Santa did during the Iran Iraq war.
The civilians can still remember the explosive gifts dropping from the skies.
Rudolph the reindeer still hasn't been put to justice for his crimes against humanity
@@AlreadyTakenTag I'm so fucking mad for laughing at this
People really sleep on this war sometimes, it's a very interesting conflict.
Yeah, but it's unfortunately so irrelevant at the grand scheme of things, even for Iran and Iraq. What did both sides learn anyway that could benefit an average high schooler or elementary student and still be relevant for their future careers that don't involve the military?
WW1 at least could tell how the war caused the downfall of the old empires, the weakening of colonialism, and the rise of nationalism and communism.
The empires were falling with or without WW1. And the ones that stayed (UK and Turkey) are still fracking around so this war was pointless. @@imgvillasrc1608
@@imgvillasrc1608 I guess it boosted Saddam's ego and led him to invade Kuwait and uh hyuk hyuk.
@@imgvillasrc1608 This is the direct cause of the first Gulf war (Iraq invaded Kuwait to try and pay its debt).
There were no winners, no territorial changes, but there were plenty of consequences. This war pretty much shaped the modern history of the Levant.
@@imgvillasrc1608nop this is the direct consequence of late 20th Beginning of the 21th History
iraq thought they won the war but debt is debt
iraqis goal was to stop revolution from getting into iraq and iraq succeed 😂😂😂😂Tawakalna ala Allah Operations ended everything iraqis wiped off 1 million iranains crushed iranain army Complete elimination of Iranian forces in Iraq (liberating 4,400sq.km)
Renewed Iraqi invasion of Iran, resulting in the capture of dozens of towns (occupying 9,600sq.km)
Iran's submission to a United Nations resolution regarding a ceasefire with Iraq, ultimately leading to the end of the Iran-Iraq War. The Iranian failure during the Karbala Campaign of the previous year had dented the Iranian military's manpower, supplies, and morale, and as a result increasing numbers of Iranians were turning against the war. This meant that the Iranian military's mobilization attempt for a renewed offensive against Iraq in 1988 had failed. The Iranian military leadership had also decided at a major strategic conference that the Iranian troops had to undertake extensive retraining and rearming in order to defeat Iraq, which could in turn take up to 5 years. As a result, Iran did not make any new attempts to invade Iraq in 1988. Iraqi forces regain control over all Iraqi territory previously held by Iranian forces, and launch a series of offensives into Iran leading to the capture of dozens of towns along the border These speedy Iraqi attacks took the Iranians by surprise and sent them into a state of confusion; they found themselves surrounded by Iraqi troops on all sides and lost all control over their forces. Thus this large-scale operation ended with the liberation of all occupied Iraqi territories. The Iranian troops in the various sectors involved in the operation had received a fatal blow; their various headquarters and formations had virtually ceased to exist. During the 1988 battles, the Iranians put up little resistance to the Iraqi offensives, having been worn out by nearly eight years of war. They lost large amounts of equipment; and 20,000 Iranian troops had been taken prisoner of war throughout the course of the operations. It was the operation that effectively ended the war, and it represented a clear Iraqi victory over the Iranian forces. The Iraqis carried out their missions quickly, efficiently, and with full coordination.[6] In the fall of 1988, the Iraqis displayed in Baghdad captured Iranian weapons amounting to more than three-quarters (75%) of the Iranian armor inventory and almost half of its artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers. On 2 July, Iran belatedly set up a joint central command which unified the Revolutionary Guard, Army, and Kurdish rebels, and dispel the rivalry between the Army and the Revolutionary Guard. However this came too late, and Iran was believed to have fewer than 200 remaining tanks on the southern front, faced against thousands of Iraqi tanks With the Iranian Army in retreat, various elements of the Iranian leadership, led by Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (who had initially pushed for the extension of the war), persuaded Khomeini to sue for peace due to Iran's almost non-existent morale and impending bankruptcy. On 20 July 1988, Iran accepted Resolution 598, showing its willingness to accept a ceasefire,] and on 20 August 1988, peace was officially restored After a series of battles, in which Iraq had emerged as the victor, the leadership in Baghdad stated that they no longer desired to conquer Iranian territory. The success of the Iraqi armed forces had convinced the clerics of Iran that they could not attain their objectives on the field of battle and to accept the ceasefire. iraq actually won now a iraqi runs and owns iran half of iran government are of iraqi origin such as ail Khamenei he was born in iraq najaf his father and mother were born in iraq Khamenei passport the real one was exposed by iranains and now a iraqi will run for president of iran in elections
So Ukraina lost because debt and run out money from west
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa
Ukraine are losing ground right now especially in Donetsk Kharkiv fronts
Which lead to the events in 1990
This is the most overlooked fact of why Saddam invaded Kuwait that triggered desert shield*.
The only war in recorded history where helicopters shot down other helicopters
Ey yo how
Elaborate
@@someboi4535 pew pew pew, vwoooosh, kaboom
@@Sky_Guy thank you for the important elaboration
Vietnam war had that too probably I guess
@@someboi4535look attack helicopters used by iraq was mi 24 hind , of soviet onion and Iranians used cobra helicopters of the usa .
These both carry air to air missiles, which many folks overlook as they only think of these as tank Busters .
But they do carry air to air missiles.
Hence they did shoot eact other many times , many times.
Source : iran iraq war by pierrie razoux , that book is the authority on this war .
It examines every every aspect of this war , like Iranians shared data of osirik reactor with Israel after their own air attack on the reactor before Israelis did.
Believe or not, this war unironically solidified the Ayatollah's power over Iran, because before that they were having internal schisms/problems.
It also gave birth to the IRGC, which would later reap the benefits of post-war reconstruction and privatization to become Iran's deep state.
It also completely won the people’s support because despite doing the most fucked up unislamic shit ever, they made Iran come out of the war alive despite being outclassed in almost everything. And for the people that was good enough (until the mid 2000s then the lost a shit ton of support)
@@elevatedmeance6807"fucked up un-Islamkc shit"
Like what? Actually have an Islamic government with sharia law?
Iran is a Shia state and had become one there where things that they have accepted that Islam does not allow also there war tactics go against the Islamic war rules the same can be said to Iraq however they are a sunni state despite going against some sunni opinion on what to do when in war @@someboi4535
@@someboi4535Depends on who you ask, Islamic by Shia standards, un-Islamic by Sunni standards.
People: Everything was better in the 80s!
People who lived on the Iraq-Iran border: Uh yeah about that
Had things gone differently, Iran could have been like Taiwan during the 80s.
People living in Afghanistan:
@@souvikrc4499 Have things gone differently - North Korea could have been another South Korea too
Thank the "multipolar world" that China and Russia wants to make
@@gae_wead_dad_6914have things gone diffrently north korea would a geographical region of republic of korea (south)
“Oh, things and world was so much better in (insert decade)”
1950 - Koreans: No
1960 - Vietnamese: No
1970 - Jews, Cambodians and Vietnamese: NO!!!
1980 - Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians: No
1990 - Jugoslavians: No!
2000 - Iraqis and Afghanians again: No!
2010 - Syrians: Hell no!!
2020 - Ukrainians: No
"So, did we win?"
"Well, yes, but actually no".
literally every war ever.
Ww1: the sequel we actually wanted
When the sequel is twice as long than the first series
@@imgvillasrc1608and had a weird ending with nothing changed compared to when it started
i cant believe sean connery is also playing the role of the iranian president, such a talented actor!
"We have WW1 at home."
As an Iraqi... Man.... Fuck this war.
as an Iranian I agree.
War=💩
It was so dumb and pointless, all that death for nothing
@lif6737 yeah, so much changed in past 4 decades.
As and another Iranian, man fuck the "supporters" of that shit
3:46 There’s a quote from a news article quoting an officer as saying “We are frying them like eggplants”
Bruh 😂
💀
They also apparently used the corpses to build a bridge across the swamp so they could advance across it. Ba'athist Iraq was hardcore.
@@capncake8837 Im Iraqi and half of my family men fought in the River Jassim battle or the river of blood, they all said the same thing, the water in the river was no longer visible because the river was filled with corpses, when the battle began a storm hit and the horrible weather conditions meant no air support for both sides, the odds were extremely uncertain, for a couple of hours the battle was man Vs man, their stories were wild.
@@RyH-yx4ys Wow.
I feel so bad for the Mossadegh supporters, all they wanted to do was nationalize their oil to make the nation not be third world and they got purged by the Shah and later the Ayatollah before having to do Middle Eastern WW1.
All thanks to the Western powers like US & UK
Islamic republic is the result of Mossadegh and the anti-western attitude he started
Moderate Muslim Iran (A government that probably be like Modern Day Tunisia or Azerbaijan) just became a fantasy. They had Progressive Extremism then Conservative Extremism, both are equally awful in different forms.
@@SiPakRubah seriously, the MI6 backed the Islamists in Iran for years.
@@souvikrc4499 Not exactly, they supported corrupt authoritarian military officers to try and overthrow the democratic government. MI6 failed but the CIA took over and succeeded. The islamists were opposed to the military and got their support from people who were angry at the coup. The main reason they did it was because they were bribed by the oil companies.
My uncle was a 19 years old frogman he died on Iraqi territory
Frogman?
May he rest in peace
Sorry for your loss. 😢
i love it
was he one of those who got shocked to death in the swamps?
Average GLA vs GLA matchup
Our will is stronk
Typical Toxin General (Iraq) vs Vanilla GLA (Iran) in C&C Generals Zero Hour Skirmish be like
GLA with (somehow) airfields and captured USA planes, yeah
@@TheMightyNaryariran use mod
the other gla captured the US Air Force General's base
_The ending of this war for Iraq ended up laying the seeds for the first Gulf War._
20/20 Hindsight is a wonderfull thing! 😂
Who would've thought lending billions to crazy dictator could end well
There should have been the meme of.
Iran: *Launches Operation Victory*
Iraq: Panik
Result: *It failed*
Iraq: Kalm
Iran: *Launches Operation UNDENIABLE Victory*
Iraq: *PANIK*
And they fail again
@@abbfilmann3735 Iraq: Alright that it, Im coming out with the big guns, ie chemical weapons.
Iraq: launches operation tawakalna ala Allah
Iran: ded
@@auuughhh5175 Exactly
Iran: *Fails again*
Iraq: *C o n f u s i o n*
Iran: *Launches Operation UNDENIABLY DECISIVE FINAL VICTORY*
Iraq: *P A N I K*
CURIOUS FACT: Brazil (during military dictatorship) also gave support to Iraq by selling some light tanks and armored cars in exchange for their knowledge in nuclear energy (and possibly nukes), which prompted other western nations to place an embargo that worsened our economic crisis, all while the U.S sold missiles to Iran (already an official enemy of the West) in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
That wasn't the last time the U.S screwed our businesses in a hypocrite move, there was also the dispute between a brazilian MBT who was about to be sold to the Saudis, but the U.S convinced them to switch to the Abrahms.
The Brazilian CIA (SNI at the time) was smugling uranium to the Iraquis to. But since the Military dictatorship was run by morons the plan was discoverd by the press of all people.
Isso também se conecta ao assassinato de José Alberto Albano do Amarante?
Brazilian when the US wants money (they’ve been doing this for the cold war dumbasses how did you just realize)
based
The Osorio Tank, iirc. And the Brazilian Army ended up buying an oudated Leopard 1 Tank
Even iran using F-14 tomcat to attack iraq at that time, despite hates america so much 😂
Type this: "iranian top gun".
Iraq is using f16
Iraq f16 lost to Iran f14
@@carkawalakhatulistiwasuperior training>superior machine, you can have the best aircraft in the world if it piloted by people who only got 12h of fly per month
They are using it because they have no budget to upgrade it xD
Teh F14 got demolished during this war even though it went up against mostly much older MiG-21s.
The fact that Iraqi aircraft traded positively in the air war is a miracle
@@dwarow2508what the fuck are you talking about
Iran-Iraq was was pretty much a modern Spanish civil war, in that it was a conflict used by various powers to put their new technologies to the test. Iran got the F-14 Tomcat and was able to use BVR combat to boop the soviet jets used by the iraqi's out of the sky. Meanwhile on the ground the Iraqi's using soviet T-62's were able to absolutely destroy the British Supplied Chieftain, as it's armor scheme was designed around withstanding the T54/55's 100mm tank gun.
Not only that, but mostly because Iran lacked trained tank crews
The F-14s were given to the Shah before the Ayatollah overthrew him and rose to power.
America and China when they see their equipment on both side : 👀
Iran: Tries playing Navy Seals
Iraq: Throws electric cables into the seas.
sigma iraq
@@survived4679 Lol Iran Won
@@TalyshMan In fact, no one won, given the losses. Iran lost more
@@TalyshManLol iraq trolled iran
@@I_Q313 maybe iran lost more soldier but in fact iran didnt lost their land-government but iraq after the war lost their government and their power
The war will be over by Ramadan they say but in reality the war is fought for so long that "The Final Offensive" is the name of second last offensive and the real last offensive is just simply named "We Put Trust In God" offensive. The worst of it, the result is "status quo ante bellum"
and i tought "the war to end all wars" is a stupid name for a war that had a sequeel even blodier than the original
At one point, the Iranians also launched Operation Victory, which failed. Instead of changing tactics or something, they just renamed it “Operation Undeniable Victory“ and did the same thing again, but with more soldiers, and I think it actually worked that time. 😂
@@capncake8837 iranians really lacked creativity when naming theyre military operations
Longest masterorolfness video I've ever seen, this war was crazy and unbelievable how much shit was sunk into the ground for nothing. Insane.
Love your content 🎉
Kuwait gives Iraq loan.
Iraq: Invades Kuwait a few years later
You left out the part where they were stealing our oil 😉
@@rayaa9306 That’s never been proven.
I am genuinely astonished by the fact that I exist with all this fuckery in this world
Americans live in peace because their government is too busy causing violence elsewhere. Never forget who most of these conflicts trace back too
In iran we called sepah the meat wall cause they didnt had any tactics they just send waves of people to their death , but in ARMY when officers from shah era released they totally changed the whole war if you were lucky enough to get drafted in army you had chance but if you doomed to sepah it was just death sentence
the IRGC is truly a cancer, aren't they
USA be like: I'm playing both the sides,so that I always come out on top
MURICA F YEAH! FREEDOM IS THE ONLY WAY YEAH!
Eh, not really. We mainly supported Iraq, but Reagan did secretly (and illegally) sell those missiles to Iran. It wasn’t an outright case of selling to both sides like what China did. It was shady government shenanigans that weren’t meant to be known.
N then yall wonder y everyone hates us😂
Ends up with Iran playing both sides (Ba'athist Iraq and the US) and coming on top (influence over Iraq)
@@humzahaq1435 How can everyone hate us if we support everyone
6:12 Saddam song is fire
That's what I'm SAYING 🔥
it's also russian song lol. Mr.Credo - "Saddam Husein"
I like the Iranian song
@@Techtalk2030 what's name
i hope that the comment section is going to be peaceful
shockingly iranians and iraqi are being civil here
@SonOfTheChinChin yes ik we are humans
SHOCKING
@@SonOfTheChinChin it was a long time ago and Iraqis and Iranians don't really hate each other's peoples in general
@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII that would require us to see Iraqis as *humans* you can't hate a little creature
@@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII And both aren't really loyal to their respective governments nowadays anyway
Fun fact: at one point in the war, the Iranian civilian volunteers, which often consisted of children, would sometimes be driven directly to the battlefield on busses. They were not all properly equipped, meaning they would have to scavenge from the battlefield if they needed a weapon.
Literally irl fornite bruh, they are even dropped off from a battle bus 😭😭
A MiG-23 scored a kills on F-14, making it the first 3rd gen fighter jet that shot down a 4th gen fighter jet
Even if it less than 1/4 of the F-14 that fought against MiG-23
by the end of the war Iraq didn't even have an air force , also 150 aircrafts defected to Iran , the MIg 23 that shot the -14 was a pilot defecting which doesn't really count since the iraqis already knew he was coming with nothing loaded, an excuse to make them look good even though they lost
Most sane Middle East conflict be like:
Most of the West's light, simple conflicts have a religion: whoever hits you on the cheek, show him the other cheek, is like the First and Second World Wars:
😅
Good music choice, C&C Generals
It's hell March 2 from c&c red alert 2
@@LegendaryMercDC Later on he uses one of the GLA battle themes from C&C Generals.
Crazy how I literally went deep into Iran Iraq war facts on Wikipedia the day prior and you dropped this video, of which I already read all the info lol. Feels weird 😅
I like how the comments ignore the fact that Iraq was the one to declare war against Iran
0:24 a persepolis reference , very based.
Good old days of 9th grade English class for me.
I remember reading that book in my free time 😂
For those who say this war doesn't have any winner, remember that the consequences of this war led to Saddam's downfall and now Iraq is under Iranian proxy control.
Yeah but that doesn’t have anything to do with this war. Iraq came out very strong after this war. Let’s not attribute America’s and NATO’s two wars overthrowing the Ba’athists to the majoos who failed to take even Basra
@@dragon888193ftwyes it has. Iraq had debt owed to gulf States that's why it invaded Kuwait
@@dragon888193ftw it had everything to do actually. As previous comment said Iraq owed a great amount of debt but that's not all.
The use of WMDs on Iran and ethnic-cleansing of kurds gave a very strong excuse to convince people Saddam is a cruel war criminal and needs to be put down.
Also Iraq didn't come out very strong, it barely escaped because of direct intervention of USA who wanted to finish the job itself.
Do you think if Iraq was still as strong as before the Iran-Iraq war, USA would truly attack it because of KUWAIT, when US didn't do anything about Iraq where it was a Main player in 6 day war?!
Don't be stupid, Saddam's Iraq hated Jews more than anything and all of these plays were just political plays to trap and destroy it which happened just perfectly.
@@ShubhamMishrabro Iran was even in a worse shape economically than Iraq. Don’t mix things up. Iraq came out so strong that the Ba’athist leadership truly thought that they could annex Kuwait and that NATO won’t bother to attack
@@Mr.Barbaro Are you an Irani?
Fun fact: The first war in history was fought between Iran and Iraq (Elam and Sumer).
This region has been through wars for millennia, fought by different polities and groups of people.
Ah yes, Iran-Iraq War; the Middle Eastern remake of WWI.
You know it’s boutta be crazy when both sides have reds and blues cheering for them
6:21
Saddam Hussein theme song hits hard.
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
Saddam: this will be a quick war and we'll be home by Eid.
The war: lasts for eight years
It's funny how whenever someone says this the war just continues for several years
Possible Eid Armistice where they play Buzkashi with visiting Taliban fighters frfr
Someone didn't learn the lessons from WW1
dont worry guys the war will be over by christmas
lasts until november 4 years later*
someone forgot to specify which christmas
5:55 They touched the boats. DON'T TOUCH THE BOATS
Bro you forgot to mention that PS2 processors were used to guide Iraqi missiles, showing the power of PS2.
Interesting
@@yulee3266 one Sony official bragged about it once too.
Man, that was one of the United States' lies to enter Iraq
@@zionmolina3039 wow
Ps2? Ps1 didn't came out till late 90s. So how was ps2 processor used during 80s?
7:33 this is the cherry on the shit sundae. All for nothing. Thanks for the vid Master may saddam be with you
I actually had no idea how crazy this was. Thanks for the legitimate education on some huge events.
As an iranian watching this and being able to laugh it makes me truly happy that not only is the war behind us, but now the iraqis and iranians have achieved positive and constructive peace(allbeit with heavy iranian meddling) but today the borders are open, the people see each other with sympathy, economic ties are flourishing.
Love to all my Iraqis out there!
The Iraqis are a vassal. As they should be. An arab is incapable of friendship.
Kurds: "so anyway, imma gonna ruin this moment real quick"
😂😂😂 Well, this happened because of Iranian interference in Iraqi politics through its supporters
@@nxjxjnddb Which is where Iranian taxpayer funds are going.
Cant stand koonis like you. Hello saars we are friends saars
"Живёт Ирак, цветёт Иран" ☠️☠️☠️
1:04 damn music is fire 👌
Bravest Iraqi feline 3:04
Its retreating
@@Techtalk2030 no that is special meowlitary op-er...I mean meneuver to re-group, no retreats!
iranians Still Crying About Getting Their Asses Kicked By Iraq...
@@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx lol, iraq lost this war, saddam got 💀 and iraq is a Persian province now
@@Techtalk2030Iraq Decisively Won This War And Humiliated A Country Many Times Larger And With A Lot More Manpower Than Its Own...🤣🤣🤣
No Such Thing As "persians" iranians Learn Arabic In School And Worship Arab Leaders. Arabs Don't. iran Is An Arab Province...
iran Begs Iraq For Money, Without Iraq iranians Can't Eat...😂😂😂
Even In This State Iraq Is A Million Times Better Than iran And Much Mucb Richer...🤣🤣🤣🤣
7:27 when you take 1 province in northern Italy in EU4
realest shit ever posted
Saddam:"damn that's was a terrible idea i shouldn't go to war...
..anyways let's invades kuwait"
Edit: me is fppprom kuwait 🇰🇼....
Saddam: "Well that war sucks too. It's time to mind my own business then."
2003 Saddam: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@SiPakRubahIraq 2005 : well at least this invasion would not lead to a huge consequence that will lead our country and other of the middle east in pure chaos
@@kg7162 Syria, Iraq and Libya from 2012-2018: ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆææÆÆÆÆæÆÆÆ
iraqis goal was to stop revolution from getting into iraq and iraq succeed 😂😂😂😂Tawakalna ala Allah Operations ended everything iraqis wiped off 1 million iranains crushed iranain army Complete elimination of Iranian forces in Iraq (liberating 4,400sq.km)
Renewed Iraqi invasion of Iran, resulting in the capture of dozens of towns (occupying 9,600sq.km)
Iran's submission to a United Nations resolution regarding a ceasefire with Iraq, ultimately leading to the end of the Iran-Iraq War. The Iranian failure during the Karbala Campaign of the previous year had dented the Iranian military's manpower, supplies, and morale, and as a result increasing numbers of Iranians were turning against the war. This meant that the Iranian military's mobilization attempt for a renewed offensive against Iraq in 1988 had failed. The Iranian military leadership had also decided at a major strategic conference that the Iranian troops had to undertake extensive retraining and rearming in order to defeat Iraq, which could in turn take up to 5 years. As a result, Iran did not make any new attempts to invade Iraq in 1988. Iraqi forces regain control over all Iraqi territory previously held by Iranian forces, and launch a series of offensives into Iran leading to the capture of dozens of towns along the border These speedy Iraqi attacks took the Iranians by surprise and sent them into a state of confusion; they found themselves surrounded by Iraqi troops on all sides and lost all control over their forces. Thus this large-scale operation ended with the liberation of all occupied Iraqi territories. The Iranian troops in the various sectors involved in the operation had received a fatal blow; their various headquarters and formations had virtually ceased to exist. During the 1988 battles, the Iranians put up little resistance to the Iraqi offensives, having been worn out by nearly eight years of war. They lost large amounts of equipment; and 20,000 Iranian troops had been taken prisoner of war throughout the course of the operations. It was the operation that effectively ended the war, and it represented a clear Iraqi victory over the Iranian forces. The Iraqis carried out their missions quickly, efficiently, and with full coordination.[6] In the fall of 1988, the Iraqis displayed in Baghdad captured Iranian weapons amounting to more than three-quarters (75%) of the Iranian armor inventory and almost half of its artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers. On 2 July, Iran belatedly set up a joint central command which unified the Revolutionary Guard, Army, and Kurdish rebels, and dispel the rivalry between the Army and the Revolutionary Guard. However this came too late, and Iran was believed to have fewer than 200 remaining tanks on the southern front, faced against thousands of Iraqi tanks With the Iranian Army in retreat, various elements of the Iranian leadership, led by Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (who had initially pushed for the extension of the war), persuaded Khomeini to sue for peace due to Iran's almost non-existent morale and impending bankruptcy. On 20 July 1988, Iran accepted Resolution 598, showing its willingness to accept a ceasefire,] and on 20 August 1988, peace was officially restored After a series of battles, in which Iraq had emerged as the victor, the leadership in Baghdad stated that they no longer desired to conquer Iranian territory. The success of the Iraqi armed forces had convinced the clerics of Iran that they could not attain their objectives on the field of battle and to accept the ceasefire. iraq actually won now a iraqi runs and owns iran half of iran government are of iraqi origin such as ail Khamenei he was born in iraq najaf his father and mother were born in iraq Khamenei passport the real one was exposed by iranains and now a iraqi will run for president of iran in elections
The moment he invaded Kuwait is the moment he lost both United States and the Soviet Union as an ally both at the same time. Quite a feat
If sisyphus was a conflict
1:06 - No matter how much I look at this image, I doubt it will ever make sense.
They go through border line so iraqi radar can't detect. And if they do attack, it might hit neutral country and considered an attack on them
@@tom_demarco How did they even get the range to pull that off?!!
@@Eboreg2 Ever heard of air refueling ?
@@rafdmour8929 Did the Iranians even have enough tankers back then?
@@Eboreg2 yup , they did it twice, one from Tabriz and one from Damascus
The Shah was a controversial figure, but it’s safe to say, that nothing like this could happen during his reign
He’s the only reason Iran achieved air superiority.
Pretty much. His plans for Imperial Iran's Armed Forces were INSANE.
Too bad he was a schizophrenic ill ridden man, dude was basically a tinfoil hat leader at the end of his reign.
The dictator M. Reza was always hostile against Iraq.
@@Lagash67 still not as much of an autocrat as Saddam Hussein
Reagan's surprise Pikachu face at that reporter is crazy
Please do the 1st and 2nd Congo Wars
"if two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one of them." - Muammar Gaddafi
Just gonna skip over North Korea being on the same side as the USA there? 0:05
Time was strange
Lol the biggest surprise was Israel supporting Iran but knowing who Israel kept advocating to overthrow in the following years it makes sense. They really didn't like the Iraqi government.
I mean they ever team up to save a north korean ship hijacked by somali pirates
Damn, I was jamming to the last Saddam Hussein song.
One of the things that really gave the iranians an edge on air warfare is the fact that their planes, for the most part, were capable of launching accurate Over the Horizon Attacks, which pretty much allowed them to pelt iraqi air formations with accurate missiles without fear of repercussions
2:54 - The frontline stalls so they end up using tanks as artillery and have trenches. Wait….I’ve seen this before recently… 🤔😅
War. War never changes.
indeed
Ww2 ?
@@solid7442 Ukraine
@@marinhaalternativa3829i also gotta mention that ukraine had trenches in donbass prior to 2022 invasion
You forgot the most important part
Israeli was supporting Iran
Really?
@@AGENTtoaster-eg4ju Yeah, they did.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Iran_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war
@@AGENTtoaster-eg4juyes, israel sold F14 parts and missiles and coordinated strikes with the Iranian air force on the nuclear power plant that Iraq had (first country in the Islamic world to have one)
Thanks guys that pretty interesting
@@bigchungus6320 iran had a us made nuclear power plant and another enrichment plant since the time of the shah, and iran was the first
Ngl, this video makes me want to play C&C Generals.
Me too.
Fun fact, French pilots flew sorties against Iran in Iraqi service.
We even got the Iran-Iraq war Edit before GTA 6
Iraq-Iran war is just WWI with 80s weaponry
Iran gets sanctioned: Iran continues
Iran gets massive offense: Iran defends
Iran gets outnumbers: Iran flattens it out
Iraq: cries in Babylonian
Iran gets tons of illegal weapons which save their ass and then proceed to get pushed back and forced to peace out.
@@auditorium.1922 nonsense.
@@auditorium.1922bullshit.
Iraq was supported by almost all SuperPowers in the world including Warsaw pact and nato. Also China and it's Neighboring countries.
@@Robbiehans Apart from nominal support the only ones who actually supplied Iraq were the westerners, Iran got tons of weapons thanks to the Iran-Contra affair and got Israeli weapons.
@@auditorium.1922 classic Israel, betting on both sides.
One of your best vids yet imo🎊
This war was the reason why the Stardust Crusaders in Jojo Part 3 couldn't take the shorter route to Egypt to kill DIO. Remember that
know you from twitter
@@survived4679 Have we met on twitter?
@@jurtra9090 no i just see you on there all the time
6:12 Me and the boys
when we go to fight
I'm sorry but the final song is fucking sending me lmao
3:43 SHOCKING SURPRISE ⚡⚡⚡🔋 !!!
now you can understand why Iran is the way it is
When the C&C Generals GLA music kicked in I started headbanging.
I can't get enough of the Saddam Hussein song by Mr.Credo.
Fun fact: During Eurovision in this year, Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan sang Aman Petrol(oh petrol!) in scene. Actually it was about 1979 petrol crisis but eventually it changed to iran iraq's war. Critizing Western Europeans and North America for their hunger to petrol.
Ah yes, because it was the US and western Europe that was responsible for Iraq invading Iran.
Or for Iran overthrowing their decent government and replacing it with a corrupt theocracy
ah, another "randomly balance teams" cold war moment