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Originally Posted by xmad
Who did start the war?(Iran-Iraq war) Iraq, because those days Iraq knew that Iran was weak because of the revolution.
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Iraq started it in 1980; they claimed that some oil-rich part of Iran was originally under Mesopotamia and that the Ottoman Empire unfairly gave it to Persia. Though I'm not too sure, I think this conflict actually goes back for centuries and, as you said, Saddam saw an opportunity in the Iranian Revolution.