As an Iranian volunteer soldier who spent 5 years of his teenage life in this bloody and unmerciful war I can testify this documentary reflects the truth of that war impartially and credibly. Despite remembering those days and the memories of my fallen friends and missed comrades running a pain across my body but it worth watching for sure.
Like Saddam Hussein really wanted Nuclear weapons from India after US did Genocide in Begal of 1971 and after when Intervention of India was opposed by US,NATO, Turkey,Jordan, Pakistan,Iran,France and UK. Like Indira Gandhi kicked all Imperialistic people out of here(besides Shah of Iran) in Under 13 days and half of Pakistan was gone. 2002:India sanctioned for Nuclear tests 2003:Iraq having no Nuclear Weapons. Sad to See Iraq,Iran,India 3 biggest traders of ancient world where we have sanctions where other Countries decide What they want.I hope this ends soon.
My father was a soldier on the front at those times (He was not married then). As a child who was interested in weaponry, I used to ask him if he can recall any wartime memories, how many Iraqis he has killed. He always lied to me that he was on the support unit, trying not to ruin a boy's view of his father. Now, as a grown man I know why. War's are disastrous. I've seen him crying silently sometimes watching documentaries about the Iran-Iraq war, remembering how many friends he had lost. He himself was nearly killed by a mortar and he has hearing problems for more than 35 years. Politicians wage wars while normal living people live with the consequences, for decades.
Feel sorry for you. That is why it is so important to somehow try to convince governments of all nations to stop manufacturing all weapons of war, that is the only way to end them.
Saddam destroyed his own country, then the other powers continued what he started. It is such a great time shame before UAE, Qatar, etc, there was Iraq, now is no more.
@@gusmarokity6482 I personally believe as long as the humans are living on Earth, there will be wars and justifications. Long ago they fought for land, then for religion, then for oil, and I think there will be wars to access water. Unfortunately, I believe wars are some part of human nature. Hope I thought otherwise but living in the middle east makes me think otherwise.
I was soldier in Iran revolutionary guard for 28 months,,I can’t describe how really actual war looks like ,but I can still feel the heat of the desert and smell of burning bodies of our dead brother as well as Iraqi , I still have nightmares from those years I wish never see another day like those days ever again and do. It wish it for anyone there is nothing but death and destruction, misery and sadness for both sides regardless of an idea or who’s right and who’s wrong😞😞💔💔
The universal soldier's tale. In the end, you are all the same. I would imagine your ancestors under the command of Xerxes felt exactly the same way. After the war, what we see is that we are not all that different. The fervor of boiling blood fans the flames of war. War itself tempers the soul and brings wisdom at much too high a cost. May you find peace in the morning.
I'm from ahwaz / Iran a city that iraq attacked those days , my father lost his hearing in this war because of RPGs waves , he was 15 when he went to this war to defend his home , I'm really proud of him
He didn't go, he was sent hehehe along with many under 18, now thats against what islam teaches right? Specially for someone to fight in the name of islam like khumeini. hehehe
@@AshrafIssaTravels they were not sent. They actually volunteered to join the army. Most teens would secretly escape the house to join the army which was against the wills of their parents.
@@AshrafIssaTravels the military didn’t even exist in Iran when they were invaded what makes you think people were drafted lmfao people had to get up and protect their homes in sandals and banana republic hats, don’t believe me? I have photos of my family back home in exactly that description lol
@@AshrafIssaTravels You wouldn't get it because you're a coward Arab. Iranian teenagers begged to be allowed to go and fight. Iranian nationalism is millennia old when the word Arab didn't even exist.
I was on an American radar in Saudi Arabia. My job was to watch Iraqi and Iranian aircraft battle each other and watch each side attack tankers in the Gulf. There were air battles taking place low level over the gulf while lines of airliners flew over the top, totally unaware of what was going on below them. The civilian air traffic controllers, mostly English, would NOT tell the airline pilots of the air battles going on 20,000 feet below them. I heard one Air Italia airline pilot report that he saw some strange air activity below him and asked the air traffic controller if it was an air exercise. The controller claimed he didn't know, even though he could see over a dozen fighters in a huge air battle below the airliner near Khark Island on his scope. Another time an Air France captain asked the controller for a descent because he was in turbulence and thought descending would get him in smoother air. The controller denied the request because an F-14 and two Mirages were battling below him. The controller just said that he had to maintain 31,000 feet "to stay away from" (he hesitated, then said) "the danger area". I think the airline captain had a good idea of what was going on because he just said "Roger" and didn't ask any further questions. I think he truly didn't want to know what was going on close to him.
The civilian pilots had to know, it was plastered all over the news all over the world, does ATC really need to spell it out for them every time? very interesting perspective though, thanks for your comment =)
@@black10872 exactly, especially in that part of the world... which was my point.... I wasn't really getting what his point was... like they know exactly what's happening below them, why does he expect ATC to refer to it and spell it out y'know? **shrug**
It was 8 years of continuous war. Are you claiming pilots had no idea? I've talked to US awacs pilots. Their job was to report all Iranian flights towards Iraq and they acted as Iraq's early warning system. But you were just watching?
still wonder, wtf did Saddam in 1991 different from what he did ten years earlier? He just again attacked neighbouring religious dictatorian state, but sadly, this time one it was still in love with uncle Sam. basically, he did the same, just not towards northeast but towards south. Considering there is much better and shorter road to Kuwait capital, seems like smart move. And suddenly BANG, there is new Hitler reborn... its like if there is a professional bank robber and you give him full cover and support while he is robbing at First National Bank, but once he shows his ass at Citibank, he is public enemy no.1...
Back then Saddam Hussein was something of an US allied, funded with arms and oil deals to fight against the Iranian Regime, as if it's a mystery where he got the technolgy to create chemical and biological weapons. Does nobody remember his firm handshake with Don Rumsfeld in 1983, then president Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East?
as the evangelical ceo of athlon sports told me "you iranians gassed yourselves" "saddam was needed to keep you people in check" The right wing religious people, of ALL RACES, are the problem with the world. they make things up, and go along with it, knowing it's BS. They did it with Iran. and they did it with trump's obvious LOSS in 2016 They hate us Iranians so much they HELPED with satelite intel...THE USA HELPED saddam locate Iranian troops knowing that those troops AND CIVILIANS will get gassed. AND ALL THIS SO THE USA CAN CAME TAKE 40% OF IRAN'S OIL LIKE ENGLAND DID LEAVE IRAN ALONE. NO MATTER HOW BAD IRAN'S GOVERNMENT IS, IRAN'S TREATMENT BY OTHERS IS FAR WORSE.
I worked in Iran from January 1998 till May 2002 and have 24 years experience with the Nation. When I tell people about this they say, "But wasn't it terrible in Iran?!?" Then I answer them, "No, I came in peace and left in peace. These people showed me empathy, respect and dignity." And that is often more than you will experience in the West. Thank you from Oslo.
Depending on what part state and country your in the west yes it can be very hard to feel hospitality but also we have very beautiful places and people aswell there's a lot of places I'd love to visit as an American and because of past wars and issues I never even was part of I'd still get judged for being American even if I went with open arms I would get obliterated just for being American from United States I can be Central American from Mexico or South American from Brazil and I would get more hospitality in certain regions it goes both ways alot of people think we are all the same mentality when in reality we are more creative then anyone in the whole world our whole country is a mixture of decedents from all over the world we might fight a lot but that's because our country accepts literally anyone's way of life and thinking depending on where you are in United States you'll see diffrent ethnicities the country landscape and total views on life's change depending on which state it's not like France or Spain or United kingdom where everything is alike and same in America u can grow up in the east coast in little Italy or the Bronx trees grass everywhere rats the size of dogs and you move to Arizona and it's all sand and 130 degree heat then you head to Louisiana and everyone speaks french and you got the swamps for the most part other countries like France Spain Norway etc..stick to the same type of culture and landscapes with minor differences throughout the whole landscape in America you can go from sand to snow to mountains to plains to forest within hours
As an Iraqi, most of my male relatives have served in the Iraq-Iran war and some lost their lives. I want to express my regret and condolences to my Iranian neighbors on their losses. The dictator Saddam lead our people and yours through a pointless and destructive war that have tarnished our economies and set us back decades. Iraq, will probably need a century to recover. Many misunderstand current Iran because they refuse to see its current policies in a historical context. May the Iranian nation prosper and heal from the wounds of war.
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!! The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME." In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ." Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
Talk for yourself. Khomeini was influencing our people, brainwashing many of them just like yourself. His intentions were dark and Saddam had to react. إذا عاجبتك إيران لهذي الدرجة، تفضّل لم أغراضك و أخذ أقرب طيارة لطهران!
Wow, that's crazy. Was your life ever in real danger at any point? Or were you able to stay away from the battle grounds? Forgive me if I'm asking a silly question.
Me just wish it never happened to any countries, war is awful on all levels. Being young as you were, the polical gender identity globally, what suprised me really that its was your nabour and yet it become war. I understand how and why broken it's back.
My mother lived in Khorramshahr (city of blood) at the start of this war and was amongst the last civilians to leave. Her stories of black smoke covered skies (making days as dark as nights) and overfilled hospitals with dead and injured people, screaming in agony, littering the hallways and streets in the city are terrifying.
My dad was a company commander, chieftain tank, in the Iranian royal army. He was sent to war in 1980 and lost his life (still MIA) during one of the biggest tank battles at that time as a result of total chaos and lack of trust between high-ranking officers and the regime.
Little story from the Iran-Iraq war: the town I grew up in was bombarded by Iraqi bomber aircrafts during the Iran Iraq war many times, but one particular bombing was the Zeinabiyyeh (girls only) school, children as young as 7 years old were killed during that bombing and when their parents rushed to the school's destroyed building a second bombing killed many of the children's parents. It is one of the most heart breaking war memories of our town and perhaps even our country.
Are you from Tabriz? My maternal grand father was a Turk from Tabriz, an officer in Reza Shah's army. He was retired from Imperial Army of Iran in 1337 (1958). He passed away in 1996 but until then he always walked very proudly, with his beard totally shaved but with a Hitler shape's mustache, wearing his ties, suits and overcoat. Occasionally he forgot to wear his shoes! due to Alzheimer. He inherited many characters from years of service in Imperial Army. One of them was his Whisky drinking, the reason for his Alzheimer. The other thing was a great love for Iran and its people. He occasionally forgot the names of his children or grand children but he remembered his deep sorrow for bombardments in Western parts of Iran and seeing the sufferings of people from TV. He was a retired and old officer at the time of Iraq's invasion.
@@farshadnorouzi5366 I'm from a town near Tabriz, and yes I'm an Iranian Turk. Your grand father sounds like he was quite a chad, I'm sure a patriotic man like him is in heaven now.
@@mohammedkh4321 Iran did not start the war. Iran did not have access to more precise weapons to destroy the palace of Saddam over his head. It was Iraq that started the war. It was Iraq that attacked Iran with missiles first. Then Iran retaliated after many warnings and in smaller scale. Iraq attacked Iran with chemical weapons but Iran never retaliated. I think if we consider Iran as pure angel, Iraq under its great monster, Saddam was the pure evil and that's why finally US got him in the waste water drain.
@@farshadnorouzi5366 Khomeini was worse than him but both are pure evil, Iran start bombing the borders but Iraq wait until attacked you, it was a wrong war I don't support it but Khomeini was wanting to spread Villayah Al Faqih to Iraq and control it anyway like what Iran trying now, Iran did attack with chemical weapons and you can Google it, it's not a secret
I grew up in tehran during the war. I vividly remeber the iraqi bombing raids and later ballistic missile strikes. My mom used to work at a hospital and I went to visit her after school hours. I still remember the horrific injuries soldiers suffered from mustard gas.
@@armanGT800 Iran and Khomeini done worse things than Saddam, Do not forget that Iran that bombed Halabja in the 80s. Iran, which started sending missiles at Baghdad first.
@@SuperTim23 unfortunately none of those are facts. This war was started by then Iraqi regime with support of the west in order to weaken or subdue a new fiery brand government in Iran. Not taking their side, but it’s a known fact Saddam authorized use of chemical weapons on civilian kurds n Iranian troops against the Geneva convention. Comments like this are baseless and simply a misdirection. Unless we stand up n acknowledge facts we can’t move forward.
I am Iranian and I was born in the city of Abadan. Abadan is a city close to the Iraqi border. I was a teenager when Saddam attacked the Iraqi army. Our house was destroyed by Iraqi bombs. 4 years later, at the age of 16.5, I volunteered for the war (I ran away from home without my parents' consent and my ID card was tampered with). During the war, I witnessed some heartbreaking scenes that are still with me. Most of my comrades were killed. Eventually, I was injured by Saddam's chemical bombs, and I still have the effects of that chemical bomb. I am against any war in the world. Unfortunately, the world is run by idiots. The war is not over in my head yet. Sorry for the spelling mistake.
Sorry to hear that my brother. If you don’t mind, how did the chemical bomb effect your of living? I plan on joining the military myself and with the potential of war I know I’m signing up for something big. And I just want to know exactly what to prepare for you know.
my dear son I'm sorry that I don't know English well, Regarding to the chemical bomb, let me say briefly that this chemical bomb has different types and has different effects. This destructive effect will be with you for the rest of your life and you will be in pain until the end of your life, if it doesn't kill you! I respect your important decision. Certainly, the army of your country is a modern and advanced army, and the army can be good for work and life, but I would prefer not to spend my life to continue living. Avoid war and weapons. Life is very short. Good luck
You must revolt against the Iranian regime so that you can live in peace As for Saddam's bombs, they were the best of all, because you were attacking Iraq
Iran miraculously managed the war and resisted very well to liberate every inch of its territory, it was like a miracle as for the first time in the history of the world,both super powers the US and the Soviet were supporting one side of the conflict which was Iraq so almost the entire world was supporting Iraq, Iran was in fact fighting a world war, it is also important to mention that Iran was under sanction. I don't know how Iranian managed to do it but it was remarkable the way they resisted the global assault on their country.
Iran could do FAR better if it had the commanders it used to uave before revolution. Many iranians loat their lives needlessly under command of "sepah" which literally had kids or people who didn't know anything about war as commanders You can see that on the karabala 5 operation where they launched it even though it was leaked. But somehow iran managed to even invade a part of iraq.
It's because Iranian revolution was brutal, and it's effected major OIL companies that bank rolled entire Iranian industrialization. Ruhollah Khomeini's public speeches to export revolution abroad, compiled with US hostage crisis... resulted in complete isolation which followed Iraqi invasion, and heavy use of chemical weapons (they openly acquired from europeans). You can't blame brutal dictators from expanding borders, and religious idiots for causing millions dead xD
@@tomasgogashvily5350 what happened in iran was called a revolution, there were 10 milion people on the street in one specific day, the reason was that iran had no independence under pro USA regim, countries have right to choose and Iranians wanted revolution to be independent from west and east, the slogan was no to west no to east only islamic Republic, the US lost its influence, 39000 American servicemen had to leave the country, the US decided to punish iran, they punished Iranians and killed them in large numbers against any human rights. I also disagree with you that dictators want to expand their borders, its not correct that the west pretend that they are democratic but support killing of millions of people who wants to be independent. Iran in reality was fighting against the US and Soviet and the rest of the world, Saddam was just a puppet. The Iranian revolution was the beginning of the end for American empire.
@@tomasgogashvily5350 if you read the history you will find out that Iranian revolution unlike many other revolution wasn't bloody to the day of the revolution victory.there was no arm struggle but only peaceful protest compared to for instance Russian revolution.
@@kevins4936 Revolution didn't simply end after imposing the new goverment, there were unspecified number of executions, repercussions, repressions, genocides against visible minorities carried out by revolutionary goverment of Iran. just because the State didn't under go civil war like in Russian Empire, it doesn't mean that the power transfer was peaceful to begin with. The rise of Iranian Islamic Republic wasn't peaceful, LOL. The beginning of the end of American Empire. First of all, United States is not an empire, it is a democratic State. yes, it has it's upcomings, but it's much better to be an american rather than live in Iran or North Korea
I was born in the city of Abadan, which was in the area attacked by Iraq. My family defended my father and all my uncles in Khorramshahr with the Marines. The crimes committed by the Iraqi army in the cities and villages of Iran were the same crimes of ISIS, that we see today.
as this was the idea of Saddam Hussein it was off course a stupid act and that war was one that many Iraqis didn’t want to happen. IRAQ was forced to fight in this war when they really did not want to.
As an Iranian I sometimes dont know if my thinking is biased but i am shocked that the world would help iraq and not allow iran to get any help, especially after the fact that iraq is the aggressor and started the whole thing. They even sold chemical weapons to iraq and allowed them to use it without any punishment. I find it mad that a war that lasted that long had the world turning a blind eye for that whole period.
I know they were profiting but I'm more suprised at how public opinion in each country was ok with it all and took so many years to condemn it and realise they were supplying a maniac
The west has been at war with Iran since Thermopylae 480 BC. This war gave the west an opportunity to make money through the military industrial and to weaken two potential adversaries at the same time. Saddam was a secularist whom other arab nations could look up to, with it own independent military which was unacceptable. Had Iran won the war, they would have a link to the mediterrenean sea with Syria, which was also unacceptable.
As an Iraqi soldier during this war ,and to all people who blaming Iraq on starting the war I say that Iran started it ,,how?? In April 9th of 1980 the first bomb fell on the Iraqi city of (Mindili) in front of Iranian city (Somar) ,then the Iranian artillery continued to bomb other Iraqi cities like : Khanakin,Zurbatia,Naftkhana,,, and many other Iraqi cities and villages near the boarders. Iraqi government documented 296 breaches of Iranian forces including breaching of Iraqi air spaces with F4 (Phantom) jet fighters ,Iraq complaned to the U.N about the breaches but no action been taken, then Khmeini followed the policy of what called (Exporting the Islamic Revolution) by inciting the sheaa Iraqi people in the south to uprise against saddam Hussain so he can take over Iraq!! My question here to any one and specially to the Iranian people would you agree with Saddam Hussain if he incite Iranian people to uprise against Komeini??!! Wake up guys and read the history well , you can see now what Iran is doing to Iraq by supporting the extremists sheaa militias to control iraq and give it to Iran on a golden plate just to retaliate the 8 years of war they defeated.
I was 9 years old in California when this war broke out. In the manner of an ill-informed child, I asked my dad who were the "good guys" and who were the "bad guys"...his response was epic: On both sides, good guys being led by bad guys, were fighting other good guys being led by other bad guys.
I really learned a bit and gained some perspective from watching this, it's much more informative than any other iran/Iraq war video I've watched yet. Thank you.
They forget to mention children soldiers (boys under the age of 15) the Ayatollah regime used in the war to clear minefields and as part of their human wave attacks. - promising them the "key to paradise” that would allow them to enter heaven as glorious martyrs. This is immoral and is not of God...it is cruelty, a regime which has no difficulty in sending children to die so long as this serves its objectives.
@@joekey8464 you are Correia but when you have literally no one helping and also giving the counter party a pat on the back for using chemical weapons, and the west were well aware of it, you use desperate measures. This was a shitty war with the west again and again don’t giving a crap about anything other than money. At least the sovjets told Iran to fuck off because they had relied on the west, but the west (France, Italy, UK, Germany and U.S) helping Iraq with satellite imagery and all, no please, do not try to put shit on Iran when blood is on the hands of those lunatic states that condones violence. History speaks for itself.
@@joekey8464 You yourself have another choice if your country's army is paralyzed due to a political settlement and an army is fully prepared to seize your homeland and all the countries of the world, whether the West or the East, help the enemy and impose sanctions on your country. !? We had to use human shields, right or wrong
@@greatpersia7699 Never thought that anyone would even excuse this barbaric cruelty and moral depravity. This is immoral and is not of God... It is a war crime to use children in war. Young boys from poor families are used as cost effective way to minimize military casualties. Hezbollah has followed in the Iranian regime’s footsteps, indoctrinating children with extremist ideology and training them from a young age to take up arms and fight in battles that serve the Iranian regime and its expansionist project across the Middle East. This indoctrination has not been confined to Iran and Lebanon, but has also spilled over into other areas as the Iranian regime spreads its extremist ideology. This includes Yemen, where the Iranian-backed Houthis routinely use children- to fight in battles in Yemen itself and on the Saudi-Yemeni border.
As an American who has never seen his homeland bombed (partial exception for 9/11) by a foreign force, I can't imagine what it is like to have to endure total war like this. I can understand why Iraqis absolutely loathe us. I also understand why the Government of Iran hates us, but I want to give a shout-out to the Iranian people. They understand the issue is between our governments, and they are legendary for treating common American visitors with the greatest hospitality imaginable, even in today's political climate. They are wonderful, very well-educated people.
@Syd McCreath It actually was during WW2 by the Japanese. No where remotely close to the suffering of other countries, but yes, Japan did bomb the contiguous United States and killed Americans.
@Syd McCreath Actually, it has. There were a few times where the U.S. military helped murder striking workers by bombing them, as well as a few instances of lynch mobs having bombers take part in burning black neighborhoods.
As Iranian, I wanna say that everything happening between Iran and US is just some dirty political thing that even we Iranian people are not completely aware of what's exactly happening (to tell you the truth we are not happy with the government we have right now)!!! The fact that out governments don't like each other doesn't mean that we don't like you guys. Myself I have lot's of American friend and also was honored to be host to some great Americans and I had my best times during it. It really feels great to know that we Iranian and you guys are in same page !!
Unlike so many poorly done documentaries you see on this topic, this is very comprehensive, well researched and informative piece! As a veteran of Iran-Iraq war (I fought in that war for 2 years ) I'm really impressed! Well done!
As an Iranian, It was the first documentary I saw on youtube which unveils the role of western countries and the Loneliness of Iranian people in this war. Yes the first and the only people-dependent country between wealthy western-dependent dictators
Hi. Thanks for this beautiful video. I am an Iranian. I wish you would remember that the United Nations declared Iraq the start of the war. Germany freely gave chemical bombs to Saddam Hussein. France gave Saddam a Mirage fighter. Japan gave the best diving suits to the Ba'ath party, and the United States and the Soviet Union, which were in the Cold War at the time, had full agreement on the disintegration of Iran, but Iran could not even buy barbed wire, and sanctions were imposed. It was later announced that Saddam had started the war
@@AlseheryLibya Saddam killed the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. It killed the Iraqi Shiie people. It hit several Iraqi cities with chemical bombs, killing its own people. He killed the people of Kuwait. How did you fall in love with this man? Community Verified icon
I had a friend who was an Iranian draft dodger. His older brother had served on the frontline and when Mamoud got his draft notice said "no brother of mine is going to serve in that bloodbath". They managed to get Mamoud out of the country and Canada accepted him as a political refugee. It was many years before he saw his family again which was very hard for him. His brother said draftees were hardly trained and always seemed to be at the front of any Iranian offensive so always had a high casualty rate.
I'm sorry to hear this not because he had to experience the war but because he wasn't just a coward he was also a traitor what is a country it's a nationality a place that gives you security,hope a home to you and your family and by family I mean all the other countryman and well you have a duty for it to protect it and that means to fight for your country when war comes just like it means to obey the law in all matters.
@@fnapFNAP The same country that killed and maimed and tortured its people . Imprisoned people because of their politics. Iran at that time was not a nation that nurtured and provided for its people. To fight you have to believe in cause. Leaders dont care about the young men and woman sent to die. To blindly do as youre told for a cause you dont believe in and go to your death is stupid.
@@nomadicsoul34 The Iraqi armies that invaded Iran would most likely do the same thing against the Iranian people, you are not expected to fight and defend a corrupt government but you are expected to fight and defend the people of your country and your family when your country is literarily getting invaded by a foreign army.
Although this film seems somewhat neutral, the reality of what happened to the Iranian people; It was much more painful. The West allowed Iraq to destroy Tehran with ballistic missiles and ordinary people's homes (I myself witnessed this destruction many times as a child) but did not allow even barbed wire to enter Iran. If you read more about this and the difficult times that have befallen us, you may understand the secret of our distrust of the West and the East and our craving for military independence. Thanks for your channel
The west can be blamed for a lot but should not probably be blamed for not running too fast into a war with two ideologically religious sides behind one of the most hated and feared dictator in western view, Saddam. In case Saddam getting anal penetrated by satan himself in western cartoons was the reason for war. As someone who found it hilarious I'd except this was not the reason for war. You might want to look towards east. It's both Russian and Chinese military tactic to break the shared moral standard of a culture. Insert thoughts of "oppressed class" and give weapons to rising mutiny. West on the other hand tries to import democratic ideology and constantly finds itself in a satellite war against Marxist ideology and Russian Kalashnikovs. Ideologies are dangerous as hell, which ever color they come in. But human is a belief based creature.
I totally understand that. It’s exactly like israeli self interest and will for power, in ww2 when Jews were being killed no country let them in, they went as refugees on a boat to the USA the Americans just sent the boat back they all were killed after. So I understand why Iran will feel the same having a devastating war and have the scales tipped against you and getting no help.
My father was a soldier for Iraq during this war. He saw his best friend die and witnessed many other horrible things. We fled on horses for 11 days from North Iraq into Iran. I was only 2 at that time.
@@TheOne-um7rp That's good to hear. I hate iraqi's, on reddit specially, who think saddam is some kind of hero and praise isis. I am glad many more iraqi's have sense to know saddam was a horrible person.
I was literally in the middle of training as an infantry man at Ft Benning on 22 September 1980 when this started, during the Iranian hostage crisis. A life changing experience.
I signed up for the army the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait. I was on a plane on my way to Basic when the air war started. I was sure I was going there.
I was in the USAF when the Shah was in power. Thousands of Iranian military personnel were trained in the US. Even back then they were always fighting among themselves. I left the service in 81.
My father fought in that war he was part of a tank battalion but his team supplied reconnaissance ( recon special forces) on foot he would tell me stories about the fights and how close he was to the enemy when they were scouting, he saved a friends life in a mine field when there keep got hit by an rpq. I know this is cringy but he is my hero
My father was a Brigadier General (Sartip) in this war, from the very first days to the last he was in frontline. he always refused to talk about the horror of it, only talked about the missions and strategics. Later they demoted him to Colonel and even tried to sentence him to execution in Islamic Court Marshal cuz they asked him to lie about some missions that was disastrous & and yet Khomeini insisted to do them with Sepah forces, and he refused .
Iraq Ww1 1920 war 1936 coup 1941 Anglo Iraqi war (ww2) 1948 ISreali Arab war 1963 US led coup 1967 war 1973 war 1980 -1988 Iran Iraq war 1990 Kuwait invasion 1991 second gulf war 1991-2002 Hunger war 2003 US invasion 2005- 2012 terrorism war 2013 Al Qaeda war 2014 -2019 Isis war Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez we need a break
In WWI - Iraq did not exist, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, to this day, no one knows where the word Iraq came from, speculations of Uruk of ancient Mesopotamia . 1918-1858, a monarchy effectively ruled under the auspices of the UK, actually turned out to be the best years of Iraq in the 20th century. 1941- German Messerschmidts were flying over Baghdad in the Al-Gilani attempt at ousting the British puppet government of the time, of course, OUL-nothing new. Poorly planned and worse executed. 1958 overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy installed by the British led by Abdul Karim Kassem (the most loved Iraqi leader ever) kicked out England Iraq becomes a republic. First Iraqi or Arab to rule Iraq since Baghdad was sacked by the Mongolian empire (destruction and murderous empire, not even Rome as spared. 1963 Ba’ath party succeed in overthrowing Kassem w. The help of the CIA, MI6, Nasser of Egypt,etc. overthrown months later by Aref. 1968 - Ba’ath revolution, Saddam is in the picture till 2003 with the gulf war round 2 2003 - second gulf war, IRAN effectively rules iraq and to this day ! 2014 - a gathering of some disgruntled foreign islamists with Iraqis unable to find jobs, make a living, hopeless at every turn forms 600-800 (some say as low as 400) formed a lightly armored untrained locals defeated over 100,000 of the so-called Iraqi army (all in it to make a meager living) took off their military uniforms, changing into civilian wear, police, security, etc did the same and Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul fell practically over night, followed by tikrit and a third of Iraq and a mere one hour of knocking on the gates of Baghdad and oh I almost forgot, in the west they were known as I S I S ( دواعش ), defeated with the assistance of USAF strikes 2016. 1990-2003 global economic sanctions (over half a million children under the age of 6 die who have not needed to die as a result of malnutrition and a lack of basic medicine), crippling Iraq at every level, economical, social, political, regional, morale all time low 2007-2012 sectarian war (Sunni and Shi’a) half a million dead,some say unto a million, literally became a slaughterhouse and neighbor divisions are in effect as of this writing.. when Saddam ruled, even a mention of the word pertaining to sectarianism, you literally became a ghost, disappeared into oblivion 2003 - now, Iraq is ruled by several militias blessed and backed by Iran, entire wealth of the ppl of Iraq (oil of course) is stolen to no end by those militias, six hundred (600) billion USD unaccounted for in a 3 year period failed educational system, infrastructure, electricity water transport manufactures closings lack of health care zero security alcoholism illicit drug use and abuse rapes killings assaults prostitution human trafficking housing shortage brutal prison tortures especially those who cited with Saddam, in fact far exceeded in numbers and brutality than the Saddam days, not a single school, hospital, road, public service building public safety, brain drain, the have nots have resorted to entire families living in graves of a loved ones absolutely nothing, nada, zilch, zero, all this and barely scratched the surface of Iraq’s problems from 2003 - ongoing …. Oh one more thing, which Iraq doesn’t get global recognition in that Iraq does have by far the world’s largest graveyard / cemetery وادي السلام “wadi Al-Salam” ( roughly - the valley of peace) located in Najaf.n
1948, 1967, 1973 Iraq had nothing to do with. These were wars against Israel by multiple Arab nations, not Iraq, attempting to kill every single Israeli man, woman and child. It continues to this day. Israel needs a break but will never get one. So they just kick ass each time they are attacked.
Scott Tilden Iraq did NOT exist during WWI, get ur facts straight. Iraq is a British creation after the Ottoman Empire capitulated and sued for peace, forced to conceded much of its former empire to the British and the French h, Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine went to England, Syria and Lebanon to the French, England drew maps of the aforementioned, became semi sovereign 1920 (Arab revolt took place against the Ottomans with British help of course), Iraq officially admitted to the League of Nations (the forerunner of the UN) as a British mandate / protectorate, exploited its and Iran’s oil fields and as they say, the rest is history !
It's crazy how much of a footnote this war is in western historical knowledge. In studying the cold war (casually, I'm no historian), I knew of this war a d some of the broader impact it had on the region but it surprises me how little I really knew about it. This was a very interesting documentary, so thank you!
Yeah. They say 500,000 - 1 million soldiers died in this war. That's a crap ton!!! Horrible trench warfare too , like WW1. Static warfare for almost 10 years lol
This documentary didn't even touch the surface of that war, + it was full of big mistake and most of picture were misleading, he shown airfield full of F15 eagle while mention Iran Air raid on Iraqi airfield
I also casually study the history of the Cold War, another very interesting and very complex war was the South African Bush War fought up in Angola, well worth a look...happy hunting buddy.
I had lived through all of this and most of it while serving in the US Army. But this answered a lot of questions and filled in blanks left by the passing of time. Thank you.
Great well researched flick! Would've loved maybe some live coverage of the battles, but understand monetization reasons.... thank you very informative and direct!
Just want to say you are an incredibly good narrator and writer (if it is you who also writes the material). Every sentence succeeds in being engaging and setting up interest in the coming sentence. Great work.
My father was a US Army officer assigned as a liaison to the shah's regime. He said that there was so much intrigue that no two Iranian generals could meet without the shah present. Later, I was a platoon leader in 3rd Ranger Bn while this war was underway. We were so concerned about Central America that the Iran-Iraq war wasn't even discussed.
Iraq's crimes were innumerable: the use of chemical weapons, the killing and torture of prisoners, and the support of fifty countries for Iraq against Iran alone, holy defense 🇮🇷
The Iraqi army never possessed any chemical weapons Iran struck Halabja to stir up discord between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq and it succeeded in doing so....
This is the only time I see a documentary, explaining the history of my country's revolution(Iran) so accurate and without any bias. Well done my friend. Subscribed!
EXACTLY! I'm tired of my own country(iran) giving false information after all these years. Books and interviews say iran won the war where as neither nation won and war actually ended in military block Even khumeini himself said that "it's so sad to agree with cease fire" while his goal was to form a islamic republic in iraq
Thanks for providing a solid attempt to an overlooked but important war. I was a little boy, of four when it started, but remember seeing horrible images of this war on the television each night. It seemed liked WWI many times. A lot of dug in trenches and locations and artillery.
Awesome video, great history lesson Better than any school or teacher could teach, accurate and every detail covered, plenty of knowledge and everything more. RIP to all caught up in a war that frankly shouldn’t have ever started, thank you once again exceptional video👍
@@serverlan763 I was 7 in the 80's and It was nothing like the 70's.Add to that we write the date on school work everyday. U got busted fibbing deal with it
@@anonymouszone3388 he said in the 70's bruh.. And my comment was that there is no way to mistake the two bruh. Being he was in school all day doing work and writing the date.. Guess u missed that
as child of a soldier in this war, i can say this to you there is nothing good comes from wars. my father still can't control his anger after 30 year . seeing his brother and his relative dying scared him for life.
This episode in the Middle East's history is brilliantly explained here and in a very neutral, balanced way. I watched AWACs (and B52 tankers to refuel them) taking off from Riyadh in 1984-5. Then, in Baghdad (1986-90) I used to listen to the artillery on the Ian -Iraq border less than 50 miles away. I spent the Spring of 1988 dodging Scud near misses and managed to drive over the border into Turkey just 48 hours before the invasion of Kuwait, in early August 1990. I then spectated the 1991 'Gulf War' and everything that happened subsequently from the UK . It taught me to loathe the futility of that, and all warfare. 40 years on from the opening of the Iran-Iraq war, that event continues to reverberate - UN sanctions, 9/11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and on and on. Unfortunately, these days we seem more - not less - in danger from megalomaniac dictators and autocrats setting off wars; just perhaps, they are less likely to be about - or funded by - oil.(?)
I was 10 when it started . First air raid, we thought it is fireworks, in 10 seconds it sank . My mom grabbed me as she was rushing to the door. I was 18 when it stopped; never experienced a teenager life. 8 years of sheer stupidity and selfishness.
I am an Iranian but my dad volunteered to join the Army. He was married and had kids (I was born after the war). He would go for months without any communication. He was near the frontline working with artilarly. He had a civil engineering degree and good at geometry. To this day he wakes up at 5 am and any loud sound wakes him up and causes nightmares and panicking. He is 72 years old.
well against that iran not even the real peoples behind the Six Day War could have done better . there is a difference between doctrines and quality . Iran was much stronger and Iran is well defended by its geography and bunkers and more importantly its soviet style patriotism , in other hand sinai and jordania are flat lands and the golan heights were not really that heavily defended . iran would never surrender after 6 days instead it will mobilise its millions and throw them to war with no issue just like russians because thats how much patriotic they are . they are too proud of their identity and history too much to surrender just because they have been bombed for 6 days. in fact even if iran lose all its aviation it will count on its industry or black market to replace them . they have enough war industry to handle such losses and replace them while the enemy is still stuck in the mountains and tranches . iran can easily become an afghanistan 2.0 but with a proper army
You are a real smart ass aren't you? Is that why your president amassed over a million western and none western soldiers, aircraft, warships armour vehicle and masses of equipment to invade a weakened battered Iraqi army?
I never wanted any part in fighting in the Middle East. I had just gotten out of the US Army. I had a feeling it was the worst thing the United States could have done at the time. All these years later I still feel that way!
Those who rule the United States are like all other rulers. They use the civilian population like pawns in their games. We, the ordinary people of the world, have much more in common with each other, than we do to the politicians that rule out countries.
Dictators with moustaches never learn...The photo of Don Rumsfeld smiling and shaking Saddam's hand during an arms deal, then just a few years later calling for his Downfall...Classic American foreign policy, convenience is King
Allies of convenience. "The Enemy of my Enemy is my friend" as too arms dealing, you do realize that the five permanent members of the UN Security council-US,Russia, England, China and France are also the Five largest arms dealers in the world?
For those who are trying to make IRAN look bad in the eyes of the world. I suggest you to watch this documentary again on 0.5 speed. We Iranians know exactly how to defend our beloved country, back then and right now, politically and militarily.
I read that some leftover US equipment in Vietnam, found its way into the hands of the Iranian Army and Air Force. I read some M107 howitzers were bought then sold to Iran, then some F-5’s were sold to Ethiopia and used for a few years before being sent to Ishfan for repairs and overhauls. I wouldn’t be surprised if that equipment is still in service in Iran
I remember this two ships, USS stark hit by exocet fired from iragi super etendard, later sailed to Subic Bay Philippine for repair, and the USS Vincennes accidentaly shot down an Iranian jetliner for mistaken as F-14.
@@Joshua_N-A not quite. The Ticos were envisioned as an evolution of the Spruance Class destroyers and were supposed to complement the Strike Cruisers (which ended up never being built). When the Strike Cruiser was dropped, the Ticos were reclassed from DDGs to CGs. So they were built on a destroyer hull but that was because they were supposed to be destroyers.
"[The West] faced a regional opponent that was armed to the teeth with the very weapons they supplied".... sounds familiar... history repeats in Afghanistan
The military equipment we left behind in Afganistan will never be a cause for conflict in Afganistan… Never! However, the WMDs we gave Saddam, they were never found so we can play that card again. So true we repeat garbage over and over US needs new controllers.
Great documentary, whilst it didn't tell me very much that I didn't know, it did put the pieces of information into chronological order and context. Thank you.
I lost 3 onkels😔 in this war and my father is still suffering from chemical Attacks from Iraq. He told me a lot about this war . He is very sad😔 that he didn't died like his comrades. Old but still reddy to fight for Iran 🇮🇷 . I can't purchase medicines for him because of US sanctions 😭.
I really enjoy all your documentaries..especially the ones on ww2..very well researched and presented clearly with excellent narration and good video and visuals.and this one on the Iran and Iraq War is no exception..keep them coming!
"The interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting each other, and the longer the better" - Sir Alan Clark, Thatcher's Defence Secretary. That is one of the most clear and succinct descriptions of the evil and cynicism that has long guided Western imperialism in the Middle East.
Should have been there in the early 80s when the FIRST gulf war started. Iran and Iraq at loggerheads and I was working for BP which then was partly under Iranian Control. Our Ships became targets for Iraqi forces and a few of them were hit before BP made 600 crew redundant. The Persian Gulf became a no go area! Sitting on top of thousands of tons of Aviation fuel destined for the Iranian Air force made our tankers very desirable targets! It was rather worrying for us crews. Eventually the Insurers refused to cover the crews going into a warzone, hence the redundancies. I came home and week later the ship I'd been on was hit!
You are telling the true mate, I was working at that port called bander shahpour and the port of Khoramshar where you working with BP. Wish you all the best. Stay Safe🙏
Israel and Iran were acquiring F-15s and F-14s roughly simultaneously in the late 70s period, respectively. The F-15 turned out to be, by a wide margin, the superior air superiority fighter. The F-14 was extremely competent in it's niche role--a long ranger interceptor w/ WVR (dogfight) capabilities as an add-on. The Phoenix was revolutionary technology, but very expensive to upkeep and easily replaced by the cheaper & more adaptable AMRAAM in 1992. Thus, Iranian F-14s in the 1980s were on a downward trajectory in terms of capability vs. Israeli F-15s (and Saudi F-15s) mated w/ totally modern maintenance and reliability--even if their longest-range AAM at the time was the AIM-7 Sparrow. By the late 80s, an Israeli or Saudi F-15 presented a far more reliable threat w/ the Sparrow then an Iranian F-14 w/ a serviceability-doubted Phoenix and AWG-9.
A well put together video but could really benefit from a greater variety of images and also ensuring that accurate images are shown and are relevant to what you’re talking about. Maybe even news reels or combat footage from the time to make it more engaging and less of a podcast.
Good detailed documentary, but indeed, the images are maybe even for more than half wrong. More images from Gulf wars than from actual Iran-Iraq war itself...
Yeah I agree. And its also important to put people's images in context of the period being discussed. For instance, Saddam's pictures while he was on trial are totally irrelevant. The Saddam of the period shouldered a rifle, smoked cigars and wore a beret.
@@ronmanders The first gulf war were very will covered by the press, and there is thousand of footage, even video, this guy did terrible job in his archive research, I had magazines that contains many photos from that era .
A few years ago here in Canada I took an Uber ride with an Iranian man who had been 18 in 1988, so he was not even 50 then. He trained in the Iranian Special Forces. He never got a chance to see the front before the war ended, but plenty of time behind the front, with ambulances and hospitals and bodies. The way he talked about it, that was terrible enough.
Love seeing history such as this. I think you should do more. Like the war between Peru and Ecuador during WW2, or the Chaco war in the early 30’s in South America.
Yes that’s what happens when you get a novice voice actor reading a script with typos, and using stock photos of the Persian gulf war 1991! Bloody idiots don’t check for accuracy of statements or use correct pronunciation.
Saddam's extravagance led to the start of the war against Iran, in which Iran defended its territory. Long live the selfless and heroic Iranians, because, according to Henry Kissinger, most Western countries supported Iraq during the war.
Let's not cry over spilled milk, the west hate Aryans, Iran the land of Aryans got slaughtered like dog and nobody cared and they won't care when it happens again which will be soon.
My mom's Cousin was part of the Golden Crown (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Crown). During one mission, he replaced one of his comrades for a mission. He and his friend (not sure if it was his copilot) both participated in the mission. His friend survived (but was captured), he did not. My grandpa waited years for news of him. After a prisoner exchange, he found out that he died over Iraqi soil.
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As an Iranian volunteer soldier who spent 5 years of his teenage life in this bloody and unmerciful war I can testify this documentary reflects the truth of that war impartially and credibly. Despite remembering those days and the memories of my fallen friends and missed comrades running a pain across my body but it worth watching for sure.
That’s great
from pasdar/basij to doctor. I like it. We need more like you. My father fought against iraQ during the war in the air force.
@@amyadams1386 Thanks my dear sister. I wish health and peace for your dad as well, the two things that all ex- soldiers need them.
I’m sorry you had to go through that. Persian people are so wonderful, I wish you all a peaceful future!
Like Saddam Hussein really wanted Nuclear weapons from India after US did Genocide in Begal of 1971 and after when Intervention of India was opposed by US,NATO, Turkey,Jordan, Pakistan,Iran,France and UK.
Like Indira Gandhi kicked all Imperialistic people out of here(besides Shah of Iran) in Under 13 days and half of Pakistan was gone.
2002:India sanctioned for Nuclear tests
2003:Iraq having no Nuclear Weapons.
Sad to See Iraq,Iran,India 3 biggest traders of ancient world where we have sanctions where other Countries decide What they want.I hope this ends soon.
My father was a soldier on the front at those times (He was not married then). As a child who was interested in weaponry, I used to ask him if he can recall any wartime memories, how many Iraqis he has killed. He always lied to me that he was on the support unit, trying not to ruin a boy's view of his father. Now, as a grown man I know why. War's are disastrous. I've seen him crying silently sometimes watching documentaries about the Iran-Iraq war, remembering how many friends he had lost. He himself was nearly killed by a mortar and he has hearing problems for more than 35 years.
Politicians wage wars while normal living people live with the consequences, for decades.
Feel sorry for you. That is why it is so important to somehow try to convince governments of all nations to stop manufacturing all weapons of war, that is the only way to end them.
Saddam destroyed his own country, then the other powers continued what he started.
It is such a great time shame before UAE, Qatar, etc, there was Iraq, now is no more.
Some wars must be fought while others are indeed a horrid and sinful endeavor of pride. This was one of them.
@@gusmarokity6482 I personally believe as long as the humans are living on Earth, there will be wars and justifications. Long ago they fought for land, then for religion, then for oil, and I think there will be wars to access water. Unfortunately, I believe wars are some part of human nature. Hope I thought otherwise but living in the middle east makes me think otherwise.
@@amirhusseina Couldn't argue with you but I just hope one day wars will and must end if we as a species want to survive.
I was soldier in Iran revolutionary guard for 28 months,,I can’t describe how really actual war looks like ,but I can still feel the heat of the desert and smell of burning bodies of our dead brother as well as Iraqi , I still have nightmares from those years I wish never see another day like those days ever again and do. It wish it for anyone there is nothing but death and destruction, misery and sadness for both sides regardless of an idea or who’s right and who’s wrong😞😞💔💔
The universal soldier's tale. In the end, you are all the same. I would imagine your ancestors under the command of Xerxes felt exactly the same way. After the war, what we see is that we are not all that different. The fervor of boiling blood fans the flames of war. War itself tempers the soul and brings wisdom at much too high a cost. May you find peace in the morning.
@@mjl1966y perhaps felt even worse at least we he’d luxury of little bit of modern warfare but in case of distraction always be same
Iran won the war
@@brightburnedits4278 yes brother but regardless it was bloody and sad so is all wars. It is best to avoid at all costs 🙏❤️
your peoples biggest mistake was the storming of the US embassy.
I'm from ahwaz / Iran a city that iraq attacked those days , my father lost his hearing in this war because of RPGs waves , he was 15 when he went to this war to defend his home , I'm really proud of him
He didn't go, he was sent hehehe along with many under 18, now thats against what islam teaches right? Specially for someone to fight in the name of islam like khumeini. hehehe
@@AshrafIssaTravels they were not sent. They actually volunteered to join the army. Most teens would secretly escape the house to join the army which was against the wills of their parents.
@@AshrafIssaTravels the military didn’t even exist in Iran when they were invaded what makes you think people were drafted lmfao people had to get up and protect their homes in sandals and banana republic hats, don’t believe me? I have photos of my family back home in exactly that description lol
@@AshrafIssaTravels You wouldn't get it because you're a coward Arab. Iranian teenagers begged to be allowed to go and fight. Iranian nationalism is millennia old when the word Arab didn't even exist.
@@AshrafIssaTravels By the way, you can keep your dum cult. Most of are leaving the Islamic cult.
I was on an American radar in Saudi Arabia. My job was to watch Iraqi and Iranian aircraft battle each other and watch each side attack tankers in the Gulf. There were air battles taking place low level over the gulf while lines of airliners flew over the top, totally unaware of what was going on below them. The civilian air traffic controllers, mostly English, would NOT tell the airline pilots of the air battles going on 20,000 feet below them. I heard one Air Italia airline pilot report that he saw some strange air activity below him and asked the air traffic controller if it was an air exercise. The controller claimed he didn't know, even though he could see over a dozen fighters in a huge air battle below the airliner near Khark Island on his scope. Another time an Air France captain asked the controller for a descent because he was in turbulence and thought descending would get him in smoother air. The controller denied the request because an F-14 and two Mirages were battling below him. The controller just said that he had to maintain 31,000 feet "to stay away from" (he hesitated, then said) "the danger area". I think the airline captain had a good idea of what was going on because he just said "Roger" and didn't ask any further questions. I think he truly didn't want to know what was going on close to him.
The civilian pilots had to know, it was plastered all over the news all over the world, does ATC really need to spell it out for them every time? very interesting perspective though, thanks for your comment =)
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface most civilian airline pilots are former air force and air force reserves. They knew what was taking place.
@@black10872 exactly, especially in that part of the world... which was my point.... I wasn't really getting what his point was... like they know exactly what's happening below them, why does he expect ATC to refer to it and spell it out y'know? **shrug**
Until it goes wrong like the MH17 above Ukraine.
It was 8 years of continuous war. Are you claiming pilots had no idea?
I've talked to US awacs pilots. Their job was to report all Iranian flights towards Iraq and they acted as Iraq's early warning system. But you were just watching?
It's nice to know that Iraq did every crazy thing that was banned from WWI and everybody was silent until Saddam invaded a small country with oil😂
Nobody cares about Iran. They have oil
Saudi Arabia felt threatened. That’s why US bases will be there forever
still wonder, wtf did Saddam in 1991 different from what he did ten years earlier? He just again attacked neighbouring religious dictatorian state, but sadly, this time one it was still in love with uncle Sam. basically, he did the same, just not towards northeast but towards south. Considering there is much better and shorter road to Kuwait capital, seems like smart move. And suddenly BANG, there is new Hitler reborn... its like if there is a professional bank robber and you give him full cover and support while he is robbing at First National Bank, but once he shows his ass at Citibank, he is public enemy no.1...
Back then Saddam Hussein was something of an US allied, funded with arms and oil deals to fight against the Iranian Regime, as if it's a mystery where he got the technolgy to create chemical and biological weapons. Does nobody remember his firm handshake with Don Rumsfeld in 1983, then president Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East?
yeah ... that is US bussiness invading a small country with oil
as the evangelical ceo of athlon sports told me
"you iranians gassed yourselves"
"saddam was needed to keep you people in check"
The right wing religious people, of ALL RACES, are the problem with the world. they make things up, and go along with it, knowing it's BS.
They did it with Iran. and they did it with trump's obvious LOSS in 2016
They hate us Iranians so much they HELPED with satelite intel...THE USA HELPED saddam locate Iranian troops knowing that those troops AND CIVILIANS will get gassed.
AND ALL THIS SO THE USA CAN CAME TAKE 40% OF IRAN'S OIL LIKE ENGLAND DID
LEAVE IRAN ALONE. NO MATTER HOW BAD IRAN'S GOVERNMENT IS, IRAN'S TREATMENT BY OTHERS IS FAR WORSE.
I worked in Iran from January 1998 till May 2002 and have 24 years experience with the Nation. When I tell people about this they say, "But wasn't it terrible in Iran?!?" Then I answer them, "No, I came in peace and left in peace. These people showed me empathy, respect and dignity." And that is often more than you will experience in the West. Thank you from Oslo.
Respect back to you. Norway has amazing history, and it's a beautiful country that we respect. Thanks for your kind words to my country.
Depending on what part state and country your in the west yes it can be very hard to feel hospitality but also we have very beautiful places and people aswell there's a lot of places I'd love to visit as an American and because of past wars and issues I never even was part of I'd still get judged for being American even if I went with open arms I would get obliterated just for being American from United States I can be Central American from Mexico or South American from Brazil and I would get more hospitality in certain regions it goes both ways alot of people think we are all the same mentality when in reality we are more creative then anyone in the whole world our whole country is a mixture of decedents from all over the world we might fight a lot but that's because our country accepts literally anyone's way of life and thinking depending on where you are in United States you'll see diffrent ethnicities the country landscape and total views on life's change depending on which state it's not like France or Spain or United kingdom where everything is alike and same in America u can grow up in the east coast in little Italy or the Bronx trees grass everywhere rats the size of dogs and you move to Arizona and it's all sand and 130 degree heat then you head to Louisiana and everyone speaks french and you got the swamps for the most part other countries like France Spain Norway etc..stick to the same type of culture and landscapes with minor differences throughout the whole landscape in America you can go from sand to snow to mountains to plains to forest within hours
It's not the people, it's their government.
Fair play mate. My gf is Iranian. The Iranians are the most friendly people I've ever met. Just very sound people
Thank you for your perspective
As an Iraqi, most of my male relatives have served in the Iraq-Iran war and some lost their lives. I want to express my regret and condolences to my Iranian neighbors on their losses. The dictator Saddam lead our people and yours through a pointless and destructive war that have tarnished our economies and set us back decades. Iraq, will probably need a century to recover. Many misunderstand current Iran because they refuse to see its current policies in a historical context. May the Iranian nation prosper and heal from the wounds of war.
حبیبی🇮🇶🤝❤🇮🇷
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+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
Talk for yourself. Khomeini was influencing our people, brainwashing many of them just like yourself. His intentions were dark and Saddam had to react.
إذا عاجبتك إيران لهذي الدرجة، تفضّل لم أغراضك و أخذ أقرب طيارة لطهران!
Great job brother. I was born in Tehran, Fall of 1978, and raised there till 1995, I literally lived this part of history first hand.
Glad you survived dude
Wow, that's crazy. Was your life ever in real danger at any point? Or were you able to stay away from the battle grounds? Forgive me if I'm asking a silly question.
I was on the other side mate I'm Baghdad! I remember Day 1 like it was yesterday! I was 4
Me just wish it never happened to any countries, war is awful on all levels. Being young as you were, the polical gender identity globally, what suprised me really that its was your nabour and yet it become war. I understand how and why broken it's back.
@@timolson515 his home town was bombarded with rockets
This war was one of the only wars that had helicopters vs helicopters in air combat
Thanks for the info… I’ll look this up! Thanks man!
Yeah. Cobra vs Hind. I forget who got the most kills.
And helicopter vs fighter jets!
One cobra(Iran) vs 2 jets!!!!
@@matttrafton2725 Mil 24 got more kills. It was stronger also. It could take thousands of shots and still fly home, not so the Cobra.
@@USB740 Not surprised. Russia makes better gunships.
My mother lived in Khorramshahr (city of blood) at the start of this war and was amongst the last civilians to leave. Her stories of black smoke covered skies (making days as dark as nights) and overfilled hospitals with dead and injured people, screaming in agony, littering the hallways and streets in the city are terrifying.
90,000 AH64 Apache Drones would be worse.
@@jaypee389 bring it keyboard warrior. you dont learn lessons do you
@@iranazadi7 I am stating hellish facts.
60,000 AH64 Apache drones with radiation free 20 kt Neutron bombs at 16 per AH64 would be hellish?
Right?
@@iranazadi7 dont listen to this fool. hes talking to himself.
@@jaypee389 yeah bro super cool usa! so much violence inside and out. HELL!!! WHOOOOO WER'RE THE GOOD GUYS
My dad was a company commander, chieftain tank, in the Iranian royal army. He was sent to war in 1980 and lost his life (still MIA) during one of the biggest tank battles at that time as a result of total chaos and lack of trust between high-ranking officers and the regime.
May he rest in peace, true heroes of iran
خدا رحمتش کنه ❤️🙏🏻
شهدا رو سر ما جا دارن❤️
RIP to your dad.
Ormazd bless him
Rest in peace ❤️
Little story from the Iran-Iraq war: the town I grew up in was bombarded by Iraqi bomber aircrafts during the Iran Iraq war many times, but one particular bombing was the Zeinabiyyeh (girls only) school, children as young as 7 years old were killed during that bombing and when their parents rushed to the school's destroyed building a second bombing killed many of the children's parents. It is one of the most heart breaking war memories of our town and perhaps even our country.
Are you from Tabriz? My maternal grand father was a Turk from Tabriz, an officer in Reza Shah's army. He was retired from Imperial Army of Iran in 1337 (1958). He passed away in 1996 but until then he always walked very proudly, with his beard totally shaved but with a Hitler shape's mustache, wearing his ties, suits and overcoat. Occasionally he forgot to wear his shoes! due to Alzheimer. He inherited many characters from years of service in Imperial Army. One of them was his Whisky drinking, the reason for his Alzheimer. The other thing was a great love for Iran and its people. He occasionally forgot the names of his children or grand children but he remembered his deep sorrow for bombardments in Western parts of Iran and seeing the sufferings of people from TV. He was a retired and old officer at the time of Iraq's invasion.
@@farshadnorouzi5366 I'm from a town near Tabriz, and yes I'm an Iranian Turk. Your grand father sounds like he was quite a chad, I'm sure a patriotic man like him is in heaven now.
Also Iran did bombed Iraqi schools and universities! Both regimes are horrible
@@mohammedkh4321 Iran did not start the war. Iran did not have access to more precise weapons to destroy the palace of Saddam over his head. It was Iraq that started the war. It was Iraq that attacked Iran with missiles first. Then Iran retaliated after many warnings and in smaller scale. Iraq attacked Iran with chemical weapons but Iran never retaliated. I think if we consider Iran as pure angel, Iraq under its great monster, Saddam was the pure evil and that's why finally US got him in the waste water drain.
@@farshadnorouzi5366 Khomeini was worse than him but both are pure evil, Iran start bombing the borders but Iraq wait until attacked you, it was a wrong war I don't support it but Khomeini was wanting to spread Villayah Al Faqih to Iraq and control it anyway like what Iran trying now, Iran did attack with chemical weapons and you can Google it, it's not a secret
I grew up in tehran during the war. I vividly remeber the iraqi bombing raids and later ballistic missile strikes. My mom used to work at a hospital and I went to visit her after school hours. I still remember the horrific injuries soldiers suffered from mustard gas.
An ex of mines uncle was killed during the war fighting for Iran. The history I read up about it was horrific
I recall the SCUD missiles. Terrible accuracy - talk about collateral damage. Not to mention use of Chemical Weapons by Iraq at the border.
@@armanGT800 Iran and Khomeini done worse things than Saddam, Do not forget that Iran that bombed Halabja in the 80s. Iran, which started sending missiles at Baghdad first.
@@SuperTim23 unfortunately none of those are facts. This war was started by then Iraqi regime with support of the west in order to weaken or subdue a new fiery brand government in Iran. Not taking their side, but it’s a known fact Saddam authorized use of chemical weapons on civilian kurds n Iranian troops against the Geneva convention. Comments like this are baseless and simply a misdirection. Unless we stand up n acknowledge facts we can’t move forward.
@ڜاڜه Yes that's right. The religious group that ruled Iran from 1979 until now is an aggressive and evil group
I am Iranian and I was born in the city of Abadan. Abadan is a city close to the Iraqi border. I was a teenager when Saddam attacked the Iraqi army. Our house was destroyed by Iraqi bombs. 4 years later, at the age of 16.5, I volunteered for the war (I ran away from home without my parents' consent and my ID card was tampered with). During the war, I witnessed some heartbreaking scenes that are still with me. Most of my comrades were killed. Eventually, I was injured by Saddam's chemical bombs, and I still have the effects of that chemical bomb. I am against any war in the world. Unfortunately, the world is run by idiots. The war is not over in my head yet. Sorry for the spelling mistake.
Sorry to hear that my brother. If you don’t mind, how did the chemical bomb effect your of living? I plan on joining the military myself and with the potential of war I know I’m signing up for something big. And I just want to know exactly what to prepare for you know.
my dear son
I'm sorry that I don't know English well, Regarding to the chemical bomb, let me say briefly that this chemical bomb has different types and has different effects. This destructive effect will be with you for the rest of your life and you will be in pain until the end of your life, if it doesn't kill you!
I respect your important decision. Certainly, the army of your country is a modern and advanced army, and the army can be good for work and life, but I would prefer not to spend my life to continue living. Avoid war and weapons. Life is very short.
Good luck
Do you think middle East would have been safe from USA destruction with Saddam hussain?
@@reza7863 who gassed the halabja city in 1988? we know that it was Saddam Hussain but why some people say i was iran.
You must revolt against the Iranian regime so that you can live in peace
As for Saddam's bombs, they were the best of all, because you were attacking Iraq
Iran miraculously managed the war and resisted very well to liberate every inch of its territory, it was like a miracle as for the first time in the history of the world,both super powers the US and the Soviet were supporting one side of the conflict which was Iraq so almost the entire world was supporting Iraq, Iran was in fact fighting a world war, it is also important to mention that Iran was under sanction. I don't know how Iranian managed to do it but it was remarkable the way they resisted the global assault on their country.
Iran could do FAR better if it had the commanders it used to uave before revolution.
Many iranians loat their lives needlessly under command of "sepah" which literally had kids or people who didn't know anything about war as commanders
You can see that on the karabala 5 operation where they launched it even though it was leaked.
But somehow iran managed to even invade a part of iraq.
It's because Iranian revolution was brutal, and it's effected major OIL companies that bank rolled entire Iranian industrialization. Ruhollah Khomeini's public speeches to export revolution abroad, compiled with US hostage crisis... resulted in complete isolation which followed Iraqi invasion, and heavy use of chemical weapons (they openly acquired from europeans). You can't blame brutal dictators from expanding borders, and religious idiots for causing millions dead xD
@@tomasgogashvily5350 what happened in iran was called a revolution, there were 10 milion people on the street in one specific day, the reason was that iran had no independence under pro USA regim, countries have right to choose and Iranians wanted revolution to be independent from west and east, the slogan was no to west no to east only islamic Republic, the US lost its influence, 39000 American servicemen had to leave the country, the US decided to punish iran, they punished Iranians and killed them in large numbers against any human rights. I also disagree with you that dictators want to expand their borders, its not correct that the west pretend that they are democratic but support killing of millions of people who wants to be independent. Iran in reality was fighting against the US and Soviet and the rest of the world, Saddam was just a puppet. The Iranian revolution was the beginning of the end for American empire.
@@tomasgogashvily5350 if you read the history you will find out that Iranian revolution unlike many other revolution wasn't bloody to the day of the revolution victory.there was no arm struggle but only peaceful protest compared to for instance Russian revolution.
@@kevins4936 Revolution didn't simply end after imposing the new goverment, there were unspecified number of executions, repercussions, repressions, genocides against visible minorities carried out by revolutionary goverment of Iran. just because the State didn't under go civil war like in Russian Empire, it doesn't mean that the power transfer was peaceful to begin with. The rise of Iranian Islamic Republic wasn't peaceful, LOL.
The beginning of the end of American Empire. First of all, United States is not an empire, it is a democratic State. yes, it has it's upcomings, but it's much better to be an american rather than live in Iran or North Korea
I was born in the city of Abadan, which was in the area attacked by Iraq.
My family defended my father and all my uncles in Khorramshahr with the Marines.
The crimes committed by the Iraqi army in the cities and villages of Iran were the same crimes of ISIS, that we see today.
I wish you all the peace in the future. Love from Croatia
as this was the idea of Saddam Hussein it was off course a stupid act and that war was one that many Iraqis didn’t want to happen. IRAQ was forced to fight in this war when they really did not want to.
Too bad Iran had sent children on suicide missions to clear the mine fields.
@@chaostheory8777 you were there,so you know
@@mujtabarashid3847 Saddam Hussein was fully backed and armed by the US.
As an Iranian I sometimes dont know if my thinking is biased but i am shocked that the world would help iraq and not allow iran to get any help, especially after the fact that iraq is the aggressor and started the whole thing. They even sold chemical weapons to iraq and allowed them to use it without any punishment. I find it mad that a war that lasted that long had the world turning a blind eye for that whole period.
War is insanity & chaos.
They were profiting from the weapon sales.
I know they were profiting but I'm more suprised at how public opinion in each country was ok with it all and took so many years to condemn it and realise they were supplying a maniac
The west has been at war with Iran since Thermopylae 480 BC. This war gave the west an opportunity to make money through the military industrial and to weaken two potential adversaries at the same time. Saddam was a secularist whom other arab nations could look up to, with it own independent military which was unacceptable. Had Iran won the war, they would have a link to the mediterrenean sea with Syria, which was also unacceptable.
As an Iraqi soldier during this war ,and to all people who blaming Iraq on starting the war I say that Iran started it ,,how?? In April 9th of 1980 the first bomb fell on the Iraqi city of (Mindili) in front of Iranian city (Somar) ,then the Iranian artillery continued to bomb other Iraqi cities like : Khanakin,Zurbatia,Naftkhana,,, and many other Iraqi cities and villages near the boarders.
Iraqi government documented 296 breaches of Iranian forces including breaching of Iraqi air spaces with F4 (Phantom) jet fighters ,Iraq complaned to the U.N about the breaches but no action been taken, then Khmeini followed the policy of what called (Exporting the Islamic Revolution) by inciting the sheaa Iraqi people in the south to uprise against saddam Hussain so he can take over Iraq!! My question here to any one and specially to the Iranian people would you agree with Saddam Hussain if he incite Iranian people to uprise against Komeini??!! Wake up guys and read the history well , you can see now what Iran is doing to Iraq by supporting the extremists sheaa militias to control iraq and give it to Iran on a golden plate just to retaliate the 8 years of war they defeated.
I was 9 years old in California when this war broke out. In the manner of an ill-informed child, I asked my dad who were the "good guys" and who were the "bad guys"...his response was epic: On both sides, good guys being led by bad guys, were fighting other good guys being led by other bad guys.
I remember being young and thinking in those kinds of "Good guys and bad guys" terms. Then you grow up and realize it's almost never that simple.
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@@incurableromantic4006 naw man it is, that is incredibly accurate! Good being lead by bad
I really learned a bit and gained some perspective from watching this, it's much more informative than any other iran/Iraq war video I've watched yet. Thank you.
I remember reading how they electrified the water when the soldiers swam. Truly a gruesome war
They forget to mention children soldiers (boys under the age of 15) the Ayatollah regime used in the war to clear minefields and as part of their human wave attacks. - promising them the "key to paradise” that would allow them to enter heaven as glorious martyrs.
This is immoral and is not of God...it is cruelty, a regime which has no difficulty in sending children to die so long as this serves its objectives.
@@joekey8464 you are Correia but when you have literally no one helping and also giving the counter party a pat on the back for using chemical weapons, and the west were well aware of it, you use desperate measures. This was a shitty war with the west again and again don’t giving a crap about anything other than money. At least the sovjets told Iran to fuck off because they had relied on the west, but the west (France, Italy, UK, Germany and U.S) helping Iraq with satellite imagery and all, no please, do not try to put shit on Iran when blood is on the hands of those lunatic states that condones violence. History speaks for itself.
@@joekey8464 You yourself have another choice if your country's army is paralyzed due to a political settlement and an army is fully prepared to seize your homeland and all the countries of the world, whether the West or the East, help the enemy and impose sanctions on your country. !?
We had to use human shields, right or wrong
@@greatpersia7699 Never thought that anyone would even excuse this barbaric cruelty and moral depravity. This is immoral and is not of God...
It is a war crime to use children in war.
Young boys from poor families are used as cost effective way to minimize military casualties.
Hezbollah has followed in the Iranian regime’s footsteps, indoctrinating children with extremist ideology and training them from a young age to take up arms and fight in battles that serve the Iranian regime and its expansionist project across the Middle East.
This indoctrination has not been confined to Iran and Lebanon, but has also spilled over into other areas as the Iranian regime spreads its extremist ideology. This includes Yemen, where the Iranian-backed Houthis routinely use children- to fight in battles in Yemen itself and on the Saudi-Yemeni border.
Only the devil could make a case for using children to clear mine field's.......end of story!
As an American who has never seen his homeland bombed (partial exception for 9/11) by a foreign force, I can't imagine what it is like to have to endure total war like this. I can understand why Iraqis absolutely loathe us. I also understand why the Government of Iran hates us, but I want to give a shout-out to the Iranian people. They understand the issue is between our governments, and they are legendary for treating common American visitors with the greatest hospitality imaginable, even in today's political climate. They are wonderful, very well-educated people.
Hold on hold on American, come on man its 2021 you telling me you still dont know 9/11 was done by your own government?
@Syd McCreath It actually was during WW2 by the Japanese. No where remotely close to the suffering of other countries, but yes, Japan did bomb the contiguous United States and killed Americans.
@@AshrafIssaTravels That is fake news.
@Syd McCreath Actually, it has.
There were a few times where the U.S. military helped murder striking workers by bombing them, as well as a few instances of lynch mobs having bombers take part in burning black neighborhoods.
As Iranian, I wanna say that everything happening between Iran and US is just some dirty political thing that even we Iranian people are not completely aware of what's exactly happening (to tell you the truth we are not happy with the government we have right now)!!!
The fact that out governments don't like each other doesn't mean that we don't like you guys. Myself I have lot's of American friend and also was honored to be host to some great Americans and I had my best times during it.
It really feels great to know that we Iranian and you guys are in same page !!
Unlike so many poorly done documentaries you see on this topic, this is very comprehensive, well researched and informative piece! As a veteran of Iran-Iraq war (I fought in that war for 2 years ) I'm really impressed! Well done!
Did you fight for the nazis or Iran?
As an Iranian, It was the first documentary I saw on youtube which unveils the role of western countries and the Loneliness of Iranian people in this war. Yes the first and the only people-dependent country between wealthy western-dependent dictators
Hi. Thanks for this beautiful video. I am an Iranian. I wish you would remember that the United Nations declared Iraq the start of the war. Germany freely gave chemical bombs to Saddam Hussein. France gave Saddam a Mirage fighter. Japan gave the best diving suits to the Ba'ath party, and the United States and the Soviet Union, which were in the Cold War at the time, had full agreement on the disintegration of Iran, but Iran could not even buy barbed wire, and sanctions were imposed. It was later announced that Saddam had started the war
I love saddam husien😍
I am from libya
@@AlseheryLibya پشماممممممممممم
@@AlseheryLibya Saddam killed the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. It killed the Iraqi Shiie people. It hit several Iraqi cities with chemical bombs, killing its own people. He killed the people of Kuwait. How did you fall in love with this man?
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@@meithamjaham702 The leaders from all sides from that time period Sucked. Western leaders too for helping. Germany should be ashamed selling Gas.
I had a friend who was an Iranian draft dodger. His older brother had served on the frontline and when Mamoud got his draft notice said "no brother of mine is going to serve in that bloodbath". They managed to get Mamoud out of the country and Canada accepted him as a political refugee. It was many years before he saw his family again which was very hard for him. His brother said draftees were hardly trained and always seemed to be at the front of any Iranian offensive so always had a high casualty rate.
I never knew a coward fighter untip you mentioned your friens
I can imagine
I'm sorry to hear this not because he had to experience the war but because he wasn't just a coward he was also a traitor what is a country it's a nationality a place that gives you security,hope a home to you and your family and by family I mean all the other countryman and well you have a duty for it to protect it and that means to fight for your country when war comes just like it means to obey the law in all matters.
@@fnapFNAP The same country that killed and maimed and tortured its people . Imprisoned people because of their politics. Iran at that time was not a nation that nurtured and provided for its people. To fight you have to believe in cause.
Leaders dont care about the young men and woman sent to die. To blindly do as youre told for a cause you dont believe in and go to your death is stupid.
@@nomadicsoul34 The Iraqi armies that invaded Iran would most likely do the same thing against the Iranian people, you are not expected to fight and defend a corrupt government but you are expected to fight and defend the people of your country and your family when your country is literarily getting invaded by a foreign army.
Although this film seems somewhat neutral, the reality of what happened to the Iranian people; It was much more painful. The West allowed Iraq to destroy Tehran with ballistic missiles and ordinary people's homes (I myself witnessed this destruction many times as a child) but did not allow even barbed wire to enter Iran. If you read more about this and the difficult times that have befallen us, you may understand the secret of our distrust of the West and the East and our craving for military independence. Thanks for your channel
The west can be blamed for a lot but should not probably be blamed for not running too fast into a war with two ideologically religious sides behind one of the most hated and feared dictator in western view, Saddam. In case Saddam getting anal penetrated by satan himself in western cartoons was the reason for war. As someone who found it hilarious I'd except this was not the reason for war. You might want to look towards east. It's both Russian and Chinese military tactic to break the shared moral standard of a culture. Insert thoughts of "oppressed class" and give weapons to rising mutiny. West on the other hand tries to import democratic ideology and constantly finds itself in a satellite war against Marxist ideology and Russian Kalashnikovs. Ideologies are dangerous as hell, which ever color they come in. But human is a belief based creature.
I totally understand that.
It’s exactly like israeli self interest and will for power, in ww2 when Jews were being killed no country let them in, they went as refugees on a boat to the USA the Americans just sent the boat back they all were killed after.
So I understand why Iran will feel the same having a devastating war and have the scales tipped against you and getting no help.
Because you tried to export your wretched revolution to us.
You had it coming, and it's not over yet
My father was a soldier for Iraq during this war. He saw his best friend die and witnessed many other horrible things. We fled on horses for 11 days from North Iraq into Iran. I was only 2 at that time.
fascinating. and how were you treated when you got to iran?
@@iranazadi7 they treated us with respect.
@@TheOne-um7rp That's good to hear. I hate iraqi's, on reddit specially, who think saddam is some kind of hero and praise isis. I am glad many more iraqi's have sense to know saddam was a horrible person.
@@TheOne-um7rp anyone who is a fan of tesla must be intelligent.
@@iranazadi7 Thank you! I love him!
I was literally in the middle of training as an infantry man at Ft Benning on 22 September 1980 when this started, during the Iranian hostage crisis. A life changing experience.
Thats crazy brother! I’ve spent my time on Sand Hill too! Were they pumping you guys up to go over there? (I would think they would) - 11B
I signed up for the army the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait. I was on a plane on my way to Basic when the air war started. I was sure I was going there.
I was in the USAF when the Shah was in power. Thousands of Iranian military personnel were trained in the US. Even back then they were always fighting among themselves. I left the service in 81.
No you weren't. Dont lie
I was in basic training at Fort Jackson while Iran was demanding that we turn over the Shah.
My father fought in that war he was part of a tank battalion but his team supplied reconnaissance ( recon special forces) on foot he would tell me stories about the fights and how close he was to the enemy when they were scouting, he saved a friends life in a mine field when there keep got hit by an rpq. I know this is cringy but he is my hero
My father was a Brigadier General (Sartip) in this war, from the very first days to the last he was in frontline. he always refused to talk about the horror of it, only talked about the missions and strategics. Later they demoted him to Colonel and even tried to sentence him to execution in Islamic Court Marshal cuz they asked him to lie about some missions that was disastrous & and yet Khomeini insisted to do them with Sepah forces, and he refused .
Biased 😁😁
You can still cry and cry 😢
Thank you for this upload
Iraq
Ww1
1920 war
1936 coup
1941 Anglo Iraqi war (ww2)
1948 ISreali Arab war
1963 US led coup
1967 war
1973 war
1980 -1988 Iran Iraq war
1990 Kuwait invasion
1991 second gulf war
1991-2002 Hunger war
2003 US invasion
2005- 2012 terrorism war
2013 Al Qaeda war
2014 -2019 Isis war
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez we need a break
Endless war.
Not to mention war against corona virus
In WWI - Iraq did not exist, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, to this day, no one knows where the word Iraq came from, speculations of Uruk of ancient Mesopotamia . 1918-1858, a monarchy effectively ruled under the auspices of the UK, actually turned out to be the best years of Iraq in the 20th century.
1941- German Messerschmidts were flying over Baghdad in the Al-Gilani attempt at ousting the British puppet government of the time, of course, OUL-nothing new. Poorly planned and worse executed.
1958 overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy installed by the British led by Abdul Karim Kassem (the most loved Iraqi leader ever) kicked out England Iraq becomes a republic. First Iraqi or Arab to rule Iraq since Baghdad was sacked by the Mongolian empire (destruction and murderous empire, not even Rome as spared.
1963 Ba’ath party succeed in overthrowing Kassem w. The help of the CIA, MI6, Nasser of Egypt,etc. overthrown months later by Aref.
1968 - Ba’ath revolution, Saddam is in the picture till 2003 with the gulf war round 2
2003 - second gulf war, IRAN effectively rules iraq and to this day !
2014 - a gathering of some disgruntled foreign islamists with Iraqis unable to find jobs, make a living, hopeless at every turn forms 600-800 (some say as low as 400) formed a lightly armored untrained locals defeated over 100,000 of the so-called Iraqi army (all in it to make a meager living) took off their military uniforms, changing into civilian wear, police, security, etc did the same and Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul fell practically over night, followed by tikrit and a third of Iraq and a mere one hour of knocking on the gates of Baghdad and oh I almost forgot, in the west they were known as I S I S ( دواعش ), defeated with the assistance of USAF strikes 2016.
1990-2003 global economic sanctions (over half a million children under the age of 6 die who have not needed to die as a result of malnutrition and a lack of basic medicine), crippling Iraq at every level, economical, social, political, regional, morale all time low
2007-2012 sectarian war (Sunni and Shi’a) half a million dead,some say unto a million, literally became a slaughterhouse and neighbor divisions are in effect as of this writing.. when Saddam ruled, even a mention of the word pertaining to sectarianism, you literally became a ghost, disappeared into oblivion
2003 - now, Iraq is ruled by several militias blessed and backed by Iran, entire wealth of the ppl of Iraq (oil of course) is stolen to no end by those militias, six hundred (600) billion USD unaccounted for in a 3 year period failed educational system, infrastructure, electricity water transport manufactures closings lack of health care zero security alcoholism illicit drug use and abuse rapes killings assaults prostitution human trafficking housing shortage brutal prison tortures especially those who cited with Saddam, in fact far exceeded in numbers and brutality than the Saddam days, not a single school, hospital, road, public service building public safety, brain drain, the have nots have resorted to entire families living in graves of a loved ones absolutely nothing, nada, zilch, zero, all this and barely scratched the surface of Iraq’s problems from 2003 - ongoing …. Oh one more thing, which Iraq doesn’t get global recognition in that Iraq does have by far the world’s largest graveyard / cemetery وادي السلام “wadi Al-Salam” ( roughly - the valley of peace) located in Najaf.n
1948, 1967, 1973 Iraq had nothing to do with. These were wars against Israel by multiple Arab nations, not Iraq, attempting to kill every single Israeli man, woman and child. It continues to this day. Israel needs a break but will never get one. So they just kick ass each time they are attacked.
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Iraq did NOT exist during WWI, get ur facts straight. Iraq is a British creation after the Ottoman Empire capitulated and sued for peace, forced to conceded much of its former empire to the British and the French h, Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine went to England, Syria and Lebanon to the French, England drew maps of the aforementioned, became semi sovereign 1920 (Arab revolt took place against the Ottomans with British help of course), Iraq officially admitted to the League of Nations (the forerunner of the UN) as a British mandate / protectorate, exploited its and Iran’s oil fields and as they say, the rest is history !
We Eat Soil From Hunger But we Don't Give Soil to Enemies
Sattar Qarchedaghli 1905 Iranian National Hero
Very good indeed, it's always good to refresh one's memory of these events.
Very concisely video on Iran Iraq War. All aspects have covered in this fourty minutes documentary video. Great work.
It's crazy how much of a footnote this war is in western historical knowledge. In studying the cold war (casually, I'm no historian), I knew of this war a d some of the broader impact it had on the region but it surprises me how little I really knew about it. This was a very interesting documentary, so thank you!
@@AsiaMinor12 Its like you are new to world politics?
Yeah. They say 500,000 - 1 million soldiers died in this war. That's a crap ton!!! Horrible trench warfare too , like WW1. Static warfare for almost 10 years lol
@@AsiaMinor12 RUMSFELD visited SADDAM with AID.
This documentary didn't even touch the surface of that war, + it was full of big mistake and most of picture were misleading, he shown airfield full of F15 eagle while mention Iran Air raid on Iraqi airfield
I also casually study the history of the Cold War, another very interesting and very complex war was the South African Bush War fought up in Angola, well worth a look...happy hunting buddy.
I had lived through all of this and most of it while serving in the US Army. But this answered a lot of questions and filled in blanks left by the passing of time. Thank you.
Wait you join soldier
Can you please elaborate? Id understand if you cant.
Thank you.
Great well researched flick! Would've loved maybe some live coverage of the battles, but understand monetization reasons.... thank you very informative and direct!
Just want to say you are an incredibly good narrator and writer (if it is you who also writes the material). Every sentence succeeds in being engaging and setting up interest in the coming sentence. Great work.
Overall, one of the most balanced war summaries I've seen online. GJ.
Except they didn’t mention the cia coup which overthrew the elected government in which the ayatollahs were backed by the cia
The birth of SAVAK or the USA interference in Iran governance, oops!!!!
acording to the book of Galacians chapter 6:7,say's be not deceived God is not mocked :for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap,
@@benjaminablong9891 Which god??? God is an ever receding speck being eradicated by Science on daily basis.
@@armanGT800 God is real no matter what
My father was a US Army officer assigned as a liaison to the shah's regime. He said that there was so much intrigue that no two Iranian generals could meet without the shah present. Later, I was a platoon leader in 3rd Ranger Bn while this war was underway. We were so concerned about Central America that the Iran-Iraq war wasn't even discussed.
Thanks for sharing. May Iran and US be friends again, hopefully without having to get Israel's approval first.
Shitty time to be in the army. No combat patch for watching the news
Iraq's crimes were innumerable: the use of chemical weapons, the killing and torture of prisoners, and the support of fifty countries for Iraq against Iran alone, holy defense 🇮🇷
The Iraqi army never possessed any chemical weapons Iran struck Halabja to stir up discord between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq and it succeeded in doing so....
@@commandantackerman9917 bullsh@t of year
Thanks for the information. Since I watched the first of your videos, I keep watching the next. Keep it UP!
Winner: Military industrial complex
That’s a bingo
Winner: SOVIET military industrial complex.
They are the only winners in every war
Eisenhower would be proud
And Stilllllll Champion
Awesome… I was an Iranian army officer during the war … your video was dead on… thank you
How are you going now?
how did you survive it?
and i was an Iraqian army.+we win
@@MG-bt7gl Lmao, delusional. Iran controls Iraq now.
@@MG-bt7gl wtf is an Iraqian xD its called Iraqi
Top notch work. I am amazed I hadn't found you till now but so happy I have. Looking forward to watching up on your content
An excellent concise presentation - good job.
This is the only time I see a documentary, explaining the history of my country's revolution(Iran) so accurate and without any bias. Well done my friend. Subscribed!
Awesome, then I'm gonna finish it, was looking for a comment like this! We need unbiased information
EXACTLY!
I'm tired of my own country(iran) giving false information after all these years.
Books and interviews say iran won the war where as neither nation won and war actually ended in military block
Even khumeini himself said that "it's so sad to agree with cease fire" while his goal was to form a islamic republic in iraq
@@artinrahideh1229 well the war was just a blood bath many men women and children where killed just for war money
Really? Didn’t it surprise you when he completely ignored uk/us cue of 1953 against our prime minister? Is this what you call accurate?
GOD Bless Iran Iraq Saudi Arabia and Israel ✝️🇺🇲♾️💓
Thanks for providing a solid attempt to an overlooked but important war. I was a little boy, of four when it started, but remember seeing horrible images of this war on the television each night. It seemed liked WWI many times. A lot of dug in trenches and locations and artillery.
Fantastic video! Great documentary very well done.
Good video. Really accurate information as well. Thanks
I was born in Tehran and served the army as a soldier for 26 months,,, 11 months in front line and lost few fellow trenchers,,,on 1984~5,,,
My respect goes out to you. No-one should have to endure the horrors of war.
Didn't the West provide Saddam with his chemical weapons and give him diplomatic cover at the UN for using them on Iranian civilians?
Germany supplied the chemicals and experts.
Civilians?
Source
Who is ‘The West’?
@@rogerpattube ...The ones that call THEMSELVES " the West"...........Are you pretending to be asleep ??
Awesome video, great history lesson Better than any school or teacher could teach, accurate and every detail covered, plenty of knowledge and everything more. RIP to all caught up in a war that frankly shouldn’t have ever started, thank you once again exceptional video👍
You did a great job narrating this
I used to come home from school every day in the late 70s and watch the iraq -iran war every day. It went on for years...
The war started in 1980...
@@Joker-vg9wk 70s or 80s its the same thing when you are only 7
@@serverlan763 I was 7 in the 80's and It was nothing like the 70's.Add to that we write the date on school work everyday. U got busted fibbing deal with it
@@danielmendi77 gulf war end 80s bruh
@@anonymouszone3388 he said in the 70's bruh.. And my comment was that there is no way to mistake the two bruh. Being he was in school all day doing work and writing the date.. Guess u missed that
as child of a soldier in this war, i can say this to you there is nothing good comes from wars. my father still can't control his anger after 30 year . seeing his brother and his relative dying scared him for life.
I would love for you to tell me about how you were recruited.
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Superb stuff, I always found it complicated when I was a kid. Tbh I'm thick at the best of times but this was brilliant. Thanks
This episode in the Middle East's history is brilliantly explained here and in a very neutral, balanced way. I watched AWACs (and B52 tankers to refuel them) taking off from Riyadh in 1984-5. Then, in Baghdad (1986-90) I used to listen to the artillery on the Ian -Iraq border less than 50 miles away. I spent the Spring of 1988 dodging Scud near misses and managed to drive over the border into Turkey just 48 hours before the invasion of Kuwait, in early August 1990. I then spectated the 1991 'Gulf War' and everything that happened subsequently from the UK . It taught me to loathe the futility of that, and all warfare. 40 years on from the opening of the Iran-Iraq war, that event continues to reverberate - UN sanctions, 9/11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and on and on. Unfortunately, these days we seem more - not less - in danger from megalomaniac dictators and autocrats setting off wars; just perhaps, they are less likely to be about - or funded by - oil.(?)
You were dodging scud missiles?
Lmao
Keep up the firestorm of great content!!
I was 10 when it started . First air raid, we thought it is fireworks, in 10 seconds it sank . My mom grabbed me as she was rushing to the door. I was 18 when it stopped; never experienced a teenager life. 8 years of sheer stupidity and selfishness.
What a fantastic documentary! Very well done
I am an Iranian but my dad volunteered to join the Army. He was married and had kids (I was born after the war). He would go for months without any communication. He was near the frontline working with artilarly. He had a civil engineering degree and good at geometry. To this day he wakes up at 5 am and any loud sound wakes him up and causes nightmares and panicking. He is 72 years old.
Saddam's entire military training consisted of watching half of a Hogan's Heroes episode, and he thought he could pull off a Six Day War scenario?
well against that iran not even the real peoples behind the Six Day War could have done better . there is a difference between doctrines and quality . Iran was much stronger and Iran is well defended by its geography and bunkers and more importantly its soviet style patriotism , in other hand sinai and jordania are flat lands and the golan heights were not really that heavily defended . iran would never surrender after 6 days instead it will mobilise its millions and throw them to war with no issue just like russians because thats how much patriotic they are . they are too proud of their identity and history too much to surrender just because they have been bombed for 6 days.
in fact even if iran lose all its aviation it will count on its industry or black market to replace them . they have enough war industry to handle such losses and replace them while the enemy is still stuck in the mountains and tranches . iran can easily become an afghanistan 2.0 but with a proper army
@@LauftFafa yes, if the US ever tried to invade Iran... it will be worst than vietnam and Afghanistan combined
You are a real smart ass aren't you? Is that why your president amassed over a million western and none western soldiers, aircraft, warships armour vehicle and masses of equipment to invade a weakened battered Iraqi army?
Hahahahaha classic comment. Probably no basis in truth but still funny.
So Iraq used up those chemical weapons on Iran? G W Bush then attacked & scratched his head where'd they go.
I never wanted any part in fighting in the Middle East. I had just gotten out of the US Army. I had a feeling it was the worst thing the United States could have done at the time. All these years later I still feel that way!
Follow the resources & $$$$$$
I'm with your point of view. Partnership with the Saudis is NOT GOOD, motivated by $$$$, not by any kind of ideology or defensive position.
Those who rule the United States are like all other rulers. They use the civilian population like pawns in their games.
We, the ordinary people of the world, have much more in common with each other, than we do to the politicians that rule out countries.
Thanks for the video.
The best documentary I have seen about this war. Great work!
You’re pretty easy to please
Dictators with moustaches never learn...The photo of Don Rumsfeld smiling and shaking Saddam's hand during an arms deal, then just a few years later calling for his Downfall...Classic American foreign policy, convenience is King
They build you up make money doing it then they tear you down make money doing it money, money, money 🤫🤫🤫
The calling for his downfall was because the dumbass decided to annex Kuwait.
or literally every country's foreign policy since the beginning of time......
He invaded Kuwait.
Allies of convenience. "The Enemy of my Enemy is my friend" as too arms dealing, you do realize that the five permanent members of the UN Security council-US,Russia, England, China and France are also the Five largest arms dealers in the world?
The ominous music during the "Background - Iraq" portion was a great lead-up to the horrors that were to come
Great documentary. Thank you for enlightening me on this not so often mentioned war of the 20th century.
awsome history man. really awsome.
Thank you.
Nicely narrated! Thank you
Had to write an essay about this at uni. Pretty much the same sort of intro, but in the understated British historical manner.
This channel is awesome needs more recognition
Please provide subtitles if possible! Love these vids! So informative and interesting! Keep up the good work 👍
For those who are trying to make IRAN look bad in the eyes of the world. I suggest you to watch this documentary again on 0.5 speed.
We Iranians know exactly how to defend our beloved country, back then and right now, politically and militarily.
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There is no need for foreigners to try to make Iran look bad, you manage this very well by yourselves.
@@fantimc1 you must be a zionist 🤣🤣
Politicians make wars, not the people. I have met a number of Iranians over my life time and i have liked them all.
So just because iraq won and did everything in they power to win your saying iraq was the bad guy? 😭🤦🏼♂️
I read that some leftover US equipment in Vietnam, found its way into the hands of the Iranian Army and Air Force. I read some M107 howitzers were bought then sold to Iran, then some F-5’s were sold to Ethiopia and used for a few years before being sent to Ishfan for repairs and overhauls. I wouldn’t be surprised if that equipment is still in service in Iran
Also Huey helicopters along with American trainers that was during
The reign of the Shaw
@@intuitivesean443 UH-1’s were mostly used in Cambodia. Along with a few other types. It isn’t known if UH-1’s were sold to the Iranians
Afganistán is the new arms supermarket.
@@W.Stryker they are still widely used in Iran
Iran still have DC airplanes. They can’t get parts Bc of the sanctions
Excellent study and report on the history !!!!
Thank you very much for the education
Nicely done. Thank you
USS STARK was a Frigate, not a Destroyer. And the USS VINCENNES was a Cruiser, not a destroyer.
I remember this two ships, USS stark hit by exocet fired from iragi super etendard, later sailed to Subic Bay Philippine for repair, and the USS Vincennes accidentaly shot down an Iranian jetliner for mistaken as F-14.
Vincennes...a cruiser built on a destroyer hull, but is a cruiser lol
@@kevlarburrito6693 courtesy of 1975 ship reclassification. The Ticos are built on destroyer hull right?
@@Joshua_N-A not quite. The Ticos were envisioned as an evolution of the Spruance Class destroyers and were supposed to complement the Strike Cruisers (which ended up never being built). When the Strike Cruiser was dropped, the Ticos were reclassed from DDGs to CGs. So they were built on a destroyer hull but that was because they were supposed to be destroyers.
Yup her last port of call was Karachi in 1987 and she was parked right abreast of our navy ship. She was very modern and beautiful ship really.
"[The West] faced a regional opponent that was armed to the teeth with the very weapons they supplied".... sounds familiar... history repeats in Afghanistan
Was looking for such a comment! Yes. Sounds all too familiar.
The military equipment we left behind in Afganistan will never be a cause for conflict in Afganistan… Never! However, the WMDs we gave Saddam, they were never found so we can play that card again. So true we repeat garbage over and over US needs new controllers.
My thoughts exactly
Wait for Saudi Arabia! That’s significantly worse than Afghanistan! But of course we close our eyes until it’s too late!
Thank you so much
This video explains it all
Well made documentary.. thanks for sharing
Great documentary, whilst it didn't tell me very much that I didn't know, it did put the pieces of information into chronological order and context. Thank you.
I lost 3 onkels😔 in this war and my father is still suffering from chemical
Attacks from Iraq. He told me a lot about this war . He is very sad😔 that he didn't died like his comrades. Old but still reddy to fight for Iran 🇮🇷 .
I can't purchase medicines for him because of US sanctions 😭.
Sorry to hear, please stay strong. It's just a only life, be happy in every condition.
Use bitcoin
Onkels??
@@markandrew5692 yah onkels. My father has 5 brothers and 3 of them died in the war the other 2 were child at taht time they didn't fight
@@markandrew5692 Did he stutter? ONKELS.
I really enjoy all your documentaries..especially the ones on ww2..very well researched and presented clearly with excellent narration and good video and visuals.and this one on the Iran and Iraq War is no exception..keep them coming!
"The interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting each other, and the longer the better" - Sir Alan Clark, Thatcher's Defence Secretary. That is one of the most clear and succinct descriptions of the evil and cynicism that has long guided Western imperialism in the Middle East.
Almost like countries has no friends and only interests. The USA,britian, iran,the ussr(later russia) and iraq are no exceptions
Should have been there in the early 80s when the FIRST gulf war started. Iran and Iraq at loggerheads and I was working for BP which then was partly under Iranian Control. Our Ships became targets for Iraqi forces and a few of them were hit before BP made 600 crew redundant. The Persian Gulf became a no go area! Sitting on top of thousands of tons of Aviation fuel destined for the Iranian Air force made our tankers very desirable targets! It was rather worrying for us crews. Eventually the Insurers refused to cover the crews going into a warzone, hence the redundancies. I came home and week later the ship I'd been on was hit!
I don't have a story to match that one.
Dang
Wow, very fortunate for u
I remember that episode.
You are telling the true mate, I was working at that port called bander shahpour and the port of Khoramshar where you working with BP. Wish you all the best. Stay Safe🙏
Over 40 years ago
I was in war for 2 years and I lost some of my friends doing war
R.I.P. 🙏🌹❤️
Israel and Iran were acquiring F-15s and F-14s roughly simultaneously in the late 70s period, respectively. The F-15 turned out to be, by a wide margin, the superior air superiority fighter. The F-14 was extremely competent in it's niche role--a long ranger interceptor w/ WVR (dogfight) capabilities as an add-on. The Phoenix was revolutionary technology, but very expensive to upkeep and easily replaced by the cheaper & more adaptable AMRAAM in 1992. Thus, Iranian F-14s in the 1980s were on a downward trajectory in terms of capability vs. Israeli F-15s (and Saudi F-15s) mated w/ totally modern maintenance and reliability--even if their longest-range AAM at the time was the AIM-7 Sparrow. By the late 80s, an Israeli or Saudi F-15 presented a far more reliable threat w/ the Sparrow then an Iranian F-14 w/ a serviceability-doubted Phoenix and AWG-9.
Hey I hope this isn’t too late, do you think in BVR the F15s they have today can defeat an Iranian F14?
Thanks for the answer
Great video! Thank you.
A well put together video but could really benefit from a greater variety of images and also ensuring that accurate images are shown and are relevant to what you’re talking about. Maybe even news reels or combat footage from the time to make it more engaging and less of a podcast.
You do not need to see the images not used, this was the most barbaric war since WW1.
Good detailed documentary, but indeed, the images are maybe even for more than half wrong. More images from Gulf wars than from actual Iran-Iraq war itself...
Yeah I agree. And its also important to put people's images in context of the period being discussed. For instance, Saddam's pictures while he was on trial are totally irrelevant. The Saddam of the period shouldered a rifle, smoked cigars and wore a beret.
@@ronmanders The first gulf war were very will covered by the press, and there is thousand of footage, even video, this guy did terrible job in his archive research, I had magazines that contains many photos from that era .
I was one year old when this started, I grew up during this terrible time and saw a really tragic moments.
superb, accurate documentary, very well done! Many thanks! Greetings from Iraq.
A few years ago here in Canada I took an Uber ride with an Iranian man who had been 18 in 1988, so he was not even 50 then. He trained in the Iranian Special Forces. He never got a chance to see the front before the war ended, but plenty of time behind the front, with ambulances and hospitals and bodies. The way he talked about it, that was terrible enough.
Love seeing history such as this. I think you should do more. Like the war between Peru and Ecuador during WW2, or the Chaco war in the early 30’s in South America.
Many photos used were incorrect. I noticed quite a few pictures of the 1991 Gulf War.
He even used some from WW2
Yes that’s what happens when you get a novice voice actor reading a script with typos, and using stock photos of the Persian gulf war 1991! Bloody idiots don’t check for accuracy of statements or use correct pronunciation.
@Cmndr Roy Fokker I think you'll find they were in reference to the Israeli attacks on the reactor complex at Osirak. Operations Opera and Babylon.
@@Irish381 thick paddy
@Cmndr Roy Fokker get a life
Saddam's extravagance led to the start of the war against Iran, in which Iran defended its territory. Long live the selfless and heroic Iranians, because, according to Henry Kissinger, most Western countries supported Iraq during the war.
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thx man,we protected our land from the dictator and terrorist saddam.
Let's not cry over spilled milk, the west hate Aryans, Iran the land of Aryans got slaughtered like dog and nobody cared and they won't care when it happens again which will be soon.
My mom's Cousin was part of the Golden Crown (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Crown). During one mission, he replaced one of his comrades for a mission. He and his friend (not sure if it was his copilot) both participated in the mission. His friend survived (but was captured), he did not. My grandpa waited years for news of him. After a prisoner exchange, he found out that he died over Iraqi soil.
What does that make you?