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Next year sees the 35th anniversary of the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, when the armies of the Iraqi Ba’athist dictatorship invaded Iran hoping for a quick and easy victory over the regime of the ayatollahs.
It didn’t happen. Eight years of barbaric conflict left the economies and infrastructure of both countries in ruins and an estimated 3 million soldiers and civilians dead and injured — nearly 5 per cent of the population.
But, by comparison with other conflicts of the 20th century, little beyond limited specialist studies have been published and the long slaughter has earned the label “The forgotten war.”
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