The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of ...
In Ahvaz, where Soleimani served during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), mourners chanted: "Death to America." Soleimani was the architect of Iran's sphere of influence across the Middle East ...
The Anfal campaign took place over eight phases, beginning in 1986, reaching its peak in 1988, and culminating in the closing weeks of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88). "A large number of the victims were ...
Amid the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and the Iran-Contra controversy that had the US providing some arms to Iran through Israel, then-prime minister Yitzhak Shamir remarked that both sides in the ...