Iran's Role In The Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq war is one of the most important, but least well known events in the recent history of the Middle East. It was no small conflict, lasting eight years, with casualties estimated to be between 150,000 to 340,000 Iraqis and 450,000 to 730,000 Iranians killed in the conflict. It saw the newly revolutionary Iran pitted against Saddam’s Ba’athist Iraq. It saw the United States support a regime that it would eventually topple, against a nation that only a couple years earlier was a close ally. It was a war of the Sunni Arab world against the Shiite Iranians; a conflict that still plagues the Middle East even today. It also echoed some of the worst aspects of World War I, with the Iraqis deploying chemical weapons like mustard gas and Tabun, without the

The Iran-Iraq war was an extremely bloody war that started in 1980 when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein wanted to invade Iran and take back the land that was promised to them in the Algiers Treaty that was signed March 6, 1975. Hussein initially intended for this war to only last a couple of months and would lead Iran to get rid of their current religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, but it did the complete opposite. The war ended up lasting eight years, and caused one million casualties, 1.7 million

When one thinks of Iraq war, the two key players are perceived to be George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. As leaders of the opposing sides, they are also perceived as the decision makers. In the individual and sub group levels of analysis, toppling of the Hussein’s regime in Iraq was a success. This success

     The Iraqis tried to prevent and split the growing international coalition through several means. They made it clear that their adversaries would pay heavily if war broke out, and they hinted they would use chemical weapons and missile attacks on cities. Iraq also held citizens of coalition countries who had been in Kuwait at the time of the invasion and said they would be held in militarily camp areas in effect using them as human shields to prevent coalition attacks. Iraq finally released the last of the foreigners in December 1990 under pressure from several Arab nations. The coalition's greatest military concern during the closing months of 1990 was that Iraqi forces would attack before coalition forces were fully in place, but no such attack took place.

This paper will seek to identify three key aspects of US sanctions imposed on Iran. First the paper will briefly introduce the reasons as to why US and Iran relations have worsened since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Secondly, this paper shall outline some of the key sanctions imposed on Iran which have influenced Irans’s behaviour. After sanctions are reviewed, the paper will then summarise the impact of sanctions on Iran. Last but not the least and most importantly, the paper will elaborate how Iran is resisting stringent US sanctions. This paper will argue that despite punitive measures adopted by the US, Iran has found alternative mechanisms to fight them and has reoriented its

Did American foreign policy and influence lead to the Iranian revolution and spark the Iranian hostage crisis?

President Reagan wanted to remain the adored figure in the public’s eye and deemed to succeed where President Carter failed, even if it meant breaking the law. Throughout the scandal, Reagan’s first priority was free the hostages. Iran stated that they would release the hostages if. there was an exchange for the arms. This exchange benefited the Reagan administration as the money they received were given to aid the Contras. In politics, the job description of a President is well known; The President runs the White House with full authority as commander in chief and everyone knows and respects this role. With this claim, how is it possible that President Reagan was unaware of the activities being conducted in his office, regarding the Iran

During this time the United States had supported Iraq. The Western powers also supported Iraq, helping Saddam with the creation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Although, in 1981 Israel attacked and destroyed a nuclear reactor in which Saddam had hoped to make a bomb. In 1988, both countries eventually agreed to peace. The results of the war were catastrophic with a total of about one million Iraqi and Iranian casualties. Only two years later, Hussein started a war with Kuwait on false claims that it had stolen from Iraq's oilfields. Another one of Hussein's false claims was that he stated Kuwait was Iraq's Nineteenth province. With this said, the first Gulf War was started in 1990 (Eugene 4)

In 2003 America engaged in a war with Iraq because we suspected that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction. The American Federal Government did not want there to be a chance that terrorist groups could gain access to these weapons and then use them against us or some other unprepared country so President George Bush waged a war against them which was very different from our stance in World War II. During that time, we tried almost everything we could to avoid joining in the war. But after we were violently attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor, we figured there was no way to avoid going into war now. We had just cause and the necessary military forces to fight back, so we did. We joined the

Ordered by President George H.W Bush, relentless allied attacks were made on the Iraqi forces which led to their surrender. Though this win was a giant success for the allied forces, tension only rose nearly a decade later with the second Gulf War starting in 2003.

This investigation assesses the Reagan Administration and its inconsistent foreign policy in regards to Iran. The Iran-Contra Affair was a controversial crisis for the fortieth president. It involved two parts: the selling of weapons to Iran and then the siphoning of that money to Nicaragua. However, in this investigation, the situation with Iran will be more prominently discussed, rather than the Nicaraguan situation. The foreign policy pertaining to the Middle East will be analyzed for its confusion and complexity. The two sources used in this essay, The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present by Lloyd C. Gardner and The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan and edited by

The U.S has long been an attractor of some of the finest academics. Filled with known academic juggernauts, the best of students has always flocked the U.S. with the hope of getting the best possible education. (This is one of the factors which influenced K’s coming to the U.S. to continue his education after living in the U.K. It is worth noting that during this time, with the newly found oil wealth, a large number of Iranians came to the U.S to study. In fact, in our interview with K, he made it clear that Boston, Massachusetts was a preferred option because of the presence of a large Iranian diaspora.) At the beginning of the Iranian Revolution in 1978, there were 36,220 Iranians enrolled in U.S. universities, in one year, the number

The bottom of the line is that the Coalition, mainly America, was going to win this war via superior technology and man power. Before this war, the Republican Guard was seen as the greatest military force in the Middle East and no one was going to beat them. We see in the six week campaign that this was not to be the case, as casualty reports for the Iraq side to be 20,000 all the way up to almost 35,000. Whereas US forces had 148 KIA throughout the entirty of the seven month event including both operations.

On the contrary, opposing views claim that the benefits of going to war with Iran compensate for the costs. One argument that adherents of war with Iran present is that a war is crucial because Iran is considered as one of the biggest state supporters of terrorist groups in the world. United States officials profess that Iran backs Islamist groups, including the Lebanese Shiite militants of Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (State Sponsors, 2011). Moreover, it is often argued that Iran regulates a repressive regime. Admittedly, various people agree that Christianity, as well as other religions, is persecuted in Iran (Should

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991 and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm4. After 42 days of relentless attacks by the allied coalition in the air and on the ground, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire on February 28; by that time, most Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or run away. Though the Persian Gulf War was initially considered an unqualified success for the international coalition, simmering conflict in the troubled region led