Adrian’s Reviews > The Iran-Iraq War > Status Update

Its quite funny how at first Iraqis would drop chemical weapons with great care and stealthiness not to bring the wrath the UN, while by 1985 every single offensive was started with salves of Mustard,VX, and Nerve gas over iranian positions and also their own Kuridsh minority. By this time all Iraqis had chemical protective gear and would deliver the toxic agents like candies to their foes.

In 1984 to repel the Iranian offensive in a marsh area, Saddam uses effectively Tabun nerve gas and mustard gas. Thousands of Iranians drown and suffocate in the boggy area.
I guess this would serve as a test case , a precedent for the gas attacks Saddam will be using in the following years against the Iraqi Kurdish minority around the city of Sulaymaniah.

Momentul ala cand iti dai seama ca tot ce stiai despreo perioada istorica deosebit de importanta pentru o tara este defapt o flatulenta , un joc de umbre al unui actor mult mai mare.
Liban: Toata miscarea Hezbollah, toata mediatizarea din anii 80 toate atentatele asupra ambasadelor cu precadere cea franceza , au fost defapt represalii iraniene deoarece Paris-ul a oferit azil unui adversar al regimului lui Khomeini.

In 1981 the Iranians launched a 1200km fighter bomber squadron from Hamedan via Turkey border, resupplying over Syria (Deir Ez Zor) to then proceed to south west Iraq and destroy H3 airbase (some 60 aircrafts)
In a greater feat , the same year israeli using Iranian info launched a 2000 km aircraft bomber raid (with no resupplying) and destroyed Iraqi's nuclear plant of Osirak months before becoming operational

France sides with Iraq , Europe double deals with both (Italians fuck up with both) , Maghreb countries besides Libya side with Saddam for various reasons (Algeria backs Iran), Gulf morachies with no choice also back Saddam. Jordan backs Saddam and gets rich off deals especially highways (Aqaba port flourishes).
Syria backs Iran , Iran gets to deploy hundreds of Pasadaran (IRGC) to Lebanon , hence Hezbollah is formed

I'm starting to think this War is probably the most complex geopolitical subject i have ever faced, and i am already having a tough time to wrap my head around all the players involved and their ever changing allegiances.

P.S Besides US and Russia shifting allegiances enter France , China , Gulf States and Hafez al Assad's Syria.
Pressing on , totally worth it ao far.

Damn, US middle eastern politics were truly trash tier in the 80's.Instead of allying and granting help to the one power able to oppose the rise of Khomeini's Iran....

Saddam Hussein was deemed "a Mafioso dictator who was impossible to manipulate and nobody trusted".His hostility toward Israel and his nuclear program totally discredited him in the eyes of the US congress.

Its so damn funny that before 1980 USA was the fiercest supporter of Iran 's Shah Pahlavi , while Moscow backed Saddam Hussein with weapons ,
After the Iranian Revolution with Khamenei gripping the power , both Mosocow and Washington did an 180 and changed allegiances that we see to this day.