Apparently the reason was that the Iranian army, weakened after the 1979 Islamic revolution, would not be able to offer significant resistance.Īnd as result Iraq will be able to gain control over oil-bearing areas, the disputed Karun River and port on the Persian Gulf coast. In the first months of the war, Iraq managed to capture or besiege a number of Iranian large cities: Khorramshahr, Susangerd, Abadan, Ahvaz, Dizful.Īnd significantly advance into Iranian territory.

The war began with the invasion of Iraqi into Iran in the fall of 1980, with the goal of seizing disputed and oil-bearing territories, mainly in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It was in this war that attack UAVs were first used, albeit in a rather primitive form. The latest weapons were used at the time, both made in the USSR and USA/Western Europe, and even in China and DPRK.

With the involvement of large masses of troops. Combat operations were conducted practically along the entire Iran-Iraq border, on land, at sea and in the air. As you know, the largest conflict during the Cold War era was the Iran-Iraq war.

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