 Complete the following phrase:   By mid-1982, the wars momentum had shifted decisively in favor of Iran, which invaded Iraq to depose Saddams government. CIA analyst Bruce Riedel recounted: You just had a series of catastrophic Iraqi defeats. They had been driven out of Iran, and the Iraqi army looked like it was falling apart. The Reagan administration feared that Irans army might slice through Iraq to the oilfields of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; Veliotes, then Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, outlined a nightmare scenario in which the Iranians invade Iraq, they defeat Iraq, and then head straight for Israel, which is distracted and debilitated by its ongoing 