But Iran rejected a cease-fire, demanding the removal of Saddam Hussein and compensation for war damage. Upon Iraq’s refusal, Iran launched an invasion into Iraqi territory (Operation Ramadan, on July 13, 1982) in the first of many attempts over the coming years to conquer Basra, Iraq’s second city and only real port. But revolutionary Iran was very limited in its tactically offensive means.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country that lies between Republic of Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Iran. There are three kinds of answers: ones that are mostly right, ones that are mostly wrong, and those that once were right but now are wrong.
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Iran and Iraq are both in the middle east, they're neighbouring countries though.... Iran sits just to the east of Iraq, with Afghanistan and Pakistan further east of Iran. Below Iraq is Saudia Arabia and to the west of Iraq is is Syria with Turkey to the north - hope that helps! Also check out google maps.
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You will see that Iraq is on the west side of Iran and Afghanistan is on the east side of Iran. These are Mountainous countries in the Middle east. My Dad always had one on the wall, but now I have Google earth. Stay in those World History classes and the Geography classes.
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They capitalized on Iran’s morale and population advantage (forty million versus Iraq’s thirteen million), but although foot infantry could breach Iraqi defense lines from time to time, if only by costly human-wave attacks, it could not penetrate deeply enough in the aftermath to achieve decisive results.
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The motivation and purpose, though, regardless of the myriad of reasons proposed, are never seen as religious zealotry and the idea that a person's very sense of self was compromised by events taking place in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Attack on soil on September 11,2001. The reason the US went to war in Afghanistan was because it was established globally that bin laden was behind the attack on the US 9/11… and that he was being harbored in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
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Iran and Iraq are both in the middle east, they're neighbouring countries though.... Iran sits just to the east of Iraq, with Afghanistan and Pakistan further east of Iran. Below Iraq is Saudia Arabia and to the west of Iraq is is Syria with Turkey to the north - hope that helps! They are two countries.
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The term Crusade is applied very loosely in the modern age, but when the Crusades… were fought, there was a belief in all of the European countries that the future of civilization and the viability of the Christian/European way of life in the long term was questionable.
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After removing the Taliban and their Pakistani supporters, the US continued by renewing war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq (once a paid ally of the West). He had only been spared in the first Gulf War (1991) to serve as a bulwark against the ambitions of Iran.
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is iraq and iran the same place
No, Iraq and Iran is not the same place.