First Gulf War

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The First Gulf War was a war between Iraq and Iran that took place from September 22, 1980 to the 20th. August 1988 continued (also Iran-Iraq war or Iraq-Iran war as opposed to the Iraq-Kuwait war, the Second Gulf War).

It ended after heavy human and economic losses on both sides without victors by a ceasefire.

Prehistory

Although the First Gulf War was mainly a struggle for dominance in the Persian Gulf, the roots of the conflict date back many centuries. They had their origin in the rivalry between Mesopotamia (area of present-day Iraq) and Persia (Iran). Before the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, parts of the Two Stream country belonged to Persia ruled by the Aq-Qoyunlu dynasty. The rising Ottoman Empire under Murad IV annexed the territory of present-day Iraq in 1638. The weak Safavid ruler of Persia, Safi I, could not prevent this. This led to a long-running border conflict; Between 1555 and 1918, Persia and the Ottoman Empire signed a total of 18 agreements to regulate the border.

The present state of Iraq emerged from territories of the former Ottoman Empire in Near East Asia after the end of the First World War, which were transferred to the League of Nations. France and Great Britain were commissioned to represent the constitutional and international interests of large parts of the former Ottoman Empire. France received the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, while Britain received the British Mandate for Mesopotamia on the territory of today's Iraq and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

The dispute over Chuzestan

In historical times, Chuzestan was an independent non-Semitic kingdom with the capital Susa and the cradle of the Elam Empire.

An ideologically advanced reason for the start of the war lay in the struggle for rule over the resource-rich province of Chuzestan. The struggle between Arabs and Persians, the liberation of "Arabistan", the majority Arab population from foreign rule. This ideology was successful on the Iraqi side, as Shiite Iraqis decided the battle against Shiite Iranians.

After Abd al-Karim Qasim took control of Iraq by a coup d'état, he declared on 18 December. December 1959:

Iraq began to support breakaway movements in Chuzestan and advanced its territorial claims at an Arab League meeting. However, the hoped-for success was not achieved. Iraq, especially after the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the rise of the Baath Party, did not comply with the existing agreement with Iran and aspired to the role of leader of the Arab world.

In 1969, then-Vice President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, declared:
Soon after, Iraqi radio stations deliberately broadcast into Chuzestan, encouraging Iranian Arabs and even Bel