Iran–Iraq War

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Date
Location
Result
Territorial changes
Iran  KDP  PUK  ISCI Support:[show]  Islamic Dawa Party  Syria[1][verification needed] (For other forms of foreign support, see here)
Ruhollah Khomeini (Supreme Leader of Iran) Others:[show] Abulhassan Banisadr (President of Iran, initially the commander-in-chief, impeached and ousted in 1981) Mohammad-Ali Rajai (President of Iran, assassinated in 1981) Ali Khamenei (President of Iran)[14] Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Head of Parliament and member of Supreme National Defence Council, lately the commander-in-chief) Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (Prime Minister of Iran, assassinated in 1981) Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Prime Minister of Iran) Valiollah Fallahi, Brig. Gen. (Chief of Staff, killed in plane crash in 1981) Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Brig. Gen. (Chief of Staff) Esmaeil Sohrabi, Colonel (Chief of Staff) Ali Shahbazi, Brig. Gen. (Chief of Staff) Mohsen Rezaee (Commander of IRGC) Massoud Barzani (Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party) Jalal Talabani (Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) Chenar Faraj (Leader of the Peshmerga) Nawshirwan Mustafa (Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim (Leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq) Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (Leader of the ISCI Military Wing)
At the onset of the war:[15] 110,000–150,000 soldiers, 1,700–2,100 tanks,[16] (500 operable)[17] 1,000 armoured vehicles, 300 operable artillery pieces,[18] 485 fighter-bombers (~100 operable), 750 helicopters After Iraq withdrew from Iran in 1982: 350,000 soldiers, 700 tanks, 2,700 armoured vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 350 aircraft, 700 helicopters early 1988:[19] 600,000 soldiers, 1,000 operable tanks, 800 armoured vehicles, 600 heavy artillery pieces, 60–80 fighter-bombers, 70–90 helicopters
123,220–160,000 KIA and 60,711 MIA (Iranian claim)[22][23] 200,000–600,000 killed (other estimates)[22][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] 800,000 killed (Iraqi claim)[22] 320,000–500,000 WIA[25][32][33] 40,000–42,875 POW[32][33] 11,000–16,000 civilian dead[22][23] Economic loss of US$627 billion[24][34]

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cells: Iran–Iraq War
Part of the Persian Gulf conflicts
Participation of child soldiers on Iranian front (top left); Iranian soldier wearing a gas mask (top right); Port quarter view of USS Stark listing to port after being mistakenly struck by an Iraqi warplane (middle left); Pro-Iraq PMOI forces killed in Operation Mersad (middle right); Iraqi prisoners of war after the re-capture of Khorramshahr by Iranians (below left); ZU-23-2 being used by the Iranian Army (below right).
Date 22 September 1980 – 20 August 1988 (7 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) Location Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf Result Stalemate; both sides claim victory Iraqi failure to annex Iranian territories and bolster Arab separatism in Khuzestan Province of Iran Iranian failure to topple Saddam Hussein and destroy Iraqi military power as well as inspire sectarian divide in Iraq United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 Territorial changes "Status quo ante bellum"; observed by United Nations Iran–Iraq Military Observer Group based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 619
22 September 1980 – 20 August 1988 (7 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf
Stalemate; both sides claim victory Iraqi failure to annex Iranian territories and bolster Arab separatism in Khuzestan Province of Iran Iranian failure to topple Saddam Hussein and destroy Iraqi military power as well as inspire sectarian divide in Iraq United Nations Security Council Resolution 598
"Status quo ante bellum"; observed by United Nations Iran–Iraq Military Observer Group based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 619
Belligerents
Iraq  PMOI  DRFLA[2][3][verification needed] Support:[show]  Soviet Union[4][5]  France[6][7]  United States[8][9]  United Kingdom[10][better source needed]  Saudi Arabia[11]  Kuwait[12][11]  Jordan[13][verification needed] (For other forms of foreign support, see here)
Commanders and leaders
Saddam Hussein (President of Iraq) Others:[show] Ali Hassan al-Majid (General and Iraqi Intelligence Service head) Taha Yassin Ramadan (General and Deputy Party Secretary) Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri (Deputy chairman, Revolutionary Command Council) Abid Hamid Mahmud (Lieutenant General) Salah Aboud Mahmoud (General) Tariq Aziz (Foreign Minister and Revolutionary Command Council member) Adnan Khairallah (Minister of Defence) Saddam Kamel (Republican Guard commander) Uday Hussein (Son of Saddam Hussein) Qusay Hussein (Son of Saddam Hussein) Maher Abd al-Rashid (General) Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (Leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan) Massoud Rajavi (President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran) Maryam Rajavi (Co-leader of the PMOI)
Units involved
see order of battle
Strength
At the onset of the war:[20] 200,000 soldiers, 2,800 tanks, 4,000 APCs, 1,400 artillery pieces, 380 fighter-bombers, 350 helicopters After Iraq withdrew from Iran in 1982: 175,000 soldiers, 1,200 tanks, 2,300 armoured vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 450 aircraft, 180 helicopters At the end of the war: 1,500,000 soldiers,[21] ~5,000 tanks, 8,500–10,000 APCs, 6,000–12,000 artillery pieces, 900 fighter-bombers, 1,000 helicopters
Casualties and losses
105,000–375,000 killed[32][34][35][36][37] 250,000–500,000 (other estimates)[38] 400,000 WIA[36] 70,000 POW[25][36] Economic loss of $561 billion[24][34]
100,000+ civilians killed on both sides[39] (not including 50,000–100,000 civilians killed in the Al-Anfal campaign)[40]
¹ The exact number of Iraqi Shia that fought alongside Iran is unknown. The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and Islamic Dawa Party supported Iran during the war. Iran would sometimes organise divisions of Iraqi POWs to fight against Iraq.

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