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Originally Posted by Pete
Most of the younger crowd tend to forget Iran lost a great number of young men in the 1980's war with Iraq.
Iraq, using border disputes as an excuse and the hoped for disarray of Iranian forces after the fall of the Shah attacked in the fall of 1980.
The next 8 years was like WW I with trench warfare and human wave attacks.
It's estimated around 500,000 soldiers from Iraq and Iran were killed with an equal number of civilians.
This war was also one of the reasons Iraq attacked Kuwait a couple of years later.
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Don't forget that we helped Sadam during that war...