Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the Imposed War (جنگ تحمیلی) in Iran, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. It was commonly referred to as the (Persian) Gulf War until the Iraq-Kuwait conflict (1990–91), which became known as the Second Persian Gulf War and later simply the Persian Gulf War.

External links and further reading

• BBC News: Reynolds, Paul. "How Saddam could embarrass the West," December 16, 2003. (regarding foreign powers which armed Iraq)
• Global map of countries who took sides in the Iran-Iraq war
• Saddam's Trial and Iran-Iraq War

Iranian sources

• Iran Chamber Society: King, John. "Arming Iraq: A Chronology of U.S. Involvement," March 2003.
• Iran Veterans Affairs Organization
• Iranian.com: Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 (memoirs, photos, and essays about the war).
• Isfahan's War Veterans Foundation
• Islamic Republic News Agency, Sacred Defense Epic
• Martyr Avini's website. A prominent photographer of the war.
• Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran.