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This was a weird war in that the US supported Iran until the Shah got overthrown. So, they started off with a lot of US military hardware. Iraq started off as a Soviet satellite in the region. So, they had a lot of Soviet military hardware. As the war progressed, the US backed Iraq to counter Iran and Iran turned to the Soviet Union for military equipment. Talk about a turn of events! 😂😂
@@KnightsWithoutATable the Iranian revolution. There had been border disputes for 4 decades. Saddam was also afraid of a theocratic shia state exporting their influence into his 60% shia state that was largely governed by sunnis. He hoped to take advantage of the chaos of the revolution to pick off the Arab majority region. But the Arabs did not join him as planned and what was supposed to be a quick little jaunt turned into an 8 year slog.
The Soviets backed Iraq for pretty much the entire war. There was a softening of relations between the USSR and Iran at the end of the war, but at that point the war was almost over and the USSR still had arms agreements with the Iraqis. The Iranians got most of their equipment from China (who were playing both sides), North Korea, and Syria. Also some aid from the US during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Very important history being covered here by the Intel Report - appreciated on you making these high quality videos available to folks whom otherwise may not have access to such comprehensive historical knowledge.
I wasn't aware about many of those historical grievances and prior clashes between Iran and Iraq in the lead up to the main war in the 80s. I'd previously mostly seen the "opportunistic move by Saddam" framing of how the war started, but it looks like the causes were a lot more murky and ambiguous.
Bigger occidental opportunists decided at some point to put the blame on Saddam to serve their narrative, that's how for me as well he was initially the "villain" in the story... But yeah, here we can see the interventionnism all along on both sides since well before the war...
It's almost like the western media shifted the narrative to villifiy saddam as a power hungry maniac to justify the invasion of Iraq, wouldn't you say.
Sadly historical narratives just shift because of modern day politics, bashing Iraq was the more trendy thing before the current war in the middle east started, now that Iran is the obvious enemy of the west the narratives just changed and main stream historians started giving more context in what lead up to the war rather than just saying "well Saddam Saddam and Saddam".
@@JeditheScribe He's a country singer who made a 9/11 memorial song and in it the god gifted lyric of "I cant tell the difference between Iraq and Iran"
@chrisschell90 Most of these documentaries never mention the context of the war and rather use an ignorant narrative that simply paints the war as "Iraq just wanted more land" which is entirely false, the reason why they don't mention it is because their audiences are mainly from the west and Iran under the Shah had the backing of the west to bully Iraq when it was weaker, it's simply more acceptable for western audiences to just look at the wars in the middle east without context because if context was given then you would realize all of these conflicts trace their roots back to either the French British or the Americans.
Blaming everything on oil is lazy thinking. The region has long-standing enmities that pre-date the oil industry by centuries. Persians vs. Arabs, Sunni vs Shia, Arabs vs. Kurds. History dating back to the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, old Israel, and of course the Ottoman Empire and the aftermath of WWI when the British Empire reshaped the region. Oil is just one factor.
Oil is so important it is always a consideration, but it isn't the only reason. It's a convenient scapegoat for ignorant people, and people who hate oil (natural gas companies?)
Ironically, it WAS about oil. Specifically the 1953 coup was about the US and Britain not wanting a british oil company to have to pay too much tax to the Iranian state. So they sabotaged Iran's democracy and ensured the rise of Khomeini. Thanks, guys. Thanks a fucking lot.
3:31 The Shah, Mohammadreza Pahlavi, was the head of state since 1941 when his father abdicated after a joint British-Soviet invasion, he didn't come to power after the 1953 coup, the Shah was initially just a constitutional monarch in 1941 but he gradually gained defacto political power in a process that began before the coup (most likely after 1948 attempt on his life) and ended with the declaration of a the one-party state in early 1970s, the coup was just one step in that direction. As for the name, Iran was officially called "The Imperial State of Iran" since 1925, when the Pahlavi dynasty replaced the Qajar one under which Iran was called "The Sublime State of Iran" or "Guarded Domains of Iran".
Really impressive how quickly yet clearly and compelling you went over the background of grievances before the war. It also got me really curious about how things might have looked today without the Shah.
It was the last fully symmetric and conventional armed conflict before current ongoing second russo-ukrainian war. All wars that were in between were either civil wars with foreign involvement (like Yugoslavia and Syria), prolonged Vietnam-like guerilla wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) or have extreme power difference between both sides (1st Gulf War).
@@namenameson9065The Iran Iraq war really wasn’t. It was one of the very few conflicts during the Cold War were the East-West conflict played little to no role. Iran with its Anti Western and Islamist ideology was disliked by both the Soviet Union and the US.
Very good video on the start of the Iran-iraq war, most people do not actually realize that Iraq was not just trying to expand its land and take over as much as it could, and that instead it was forced into the war because of iranian aggression, this video is unbias, and is a repersentation on how all people who write about history should aspire to do, congrats to the team/person who made this video.
What i learned from this video, was that they were getting along fine until the shah came into power and started souring relations, and in their oppressive governance, caused a revolution that in turn caused destabilization in neighboring nations angering Iraq. So, as always blame the British and West lol
Long story short Saddam was genuinely concerned that post-revolutionary Iran was on a course towards destabilising or invading Iraq at some point so he decided to hit first.
The video states that Iraq only had eyes on the tiny region in the south West of Iran, but Saddam, upon starting the military campaign, was quoted as saying : "we'll reach Tehran in three days".
@samblu9772 we lost, the day Khomeini came to power, that was our loss. We lost our country to mullahs. But as far as losing the war goes, the borders remained the same, the regimes remained the same. Only both countries lost thousands of men and were on the brink of bankruptcy after the war. There were no winners. There were no gains. But if it makes you feel better to think you've won, who am I to disagree. Here it goes: Hurrah, you won.
I appreciate this channel being one of, if not the first, to actually represent the truth behind this conflict. Iraq is always vilified in the context of this war to legitimize the taking down of Saddam. Nothing frustrates me more then seeing people treating Iran as the innocent doves in this conflict. Iraq's claim to victory in this war should hopefully make a little more sense at least to some of the people watching since Iraq was able to halt Iran from further hostile incursions against their soverignty. We, today, are seeing the ramifications of Iranian imperial ambitions in the region, and I hope more people can understand just how much of a shit-show American foreign policy has been in the region for the past 50 plus years.
iran defeated iraq and stopped saddam from taking iranian regions. we then pushed into iraq after that and made sure he was bankrupted and would never be able to attack us again. Iraq today is now a colony of iran as it should be
@@samblu9772 "Iraq today is now a colony of iran as it should be". Ladies and gentlemen the Persian plague and it's ever present vicious ambition manifest.
Thanks for covering this war. For obvious reasons, this doesn't get as much coverage on yt history channels as it should but this conflict shaped the middle east we know today. I am glad you're taking the risk and depicting the events that more people should know about and understand.
“For obvious reasons…” Yeah, like being a border war between two shitholes that no one who matters cares about unless they’re destabilizing the world order.
This was a very important and not well covered piece of history that I was not very familiar with. Thanks for covering it in a video for us to enjoy learning from.
This is a fair and balanced approach. You lay out the complexities that render any moral judgement very difficult. In a RUclips full of propaganda, you stand out as an actual historian, at least on this issue.
Nice i was hoping you'd cover the Iran-Iraq war! A war that deserves more western coverage. I hope you talk about the subsequent tanker war and how Iraq got lots of its Chemical weapons from France, Britain and the US
Well I guess we dont like to speak too much of all those conflicts we're only fueling for our own interests and making huge profits out of... It's never their own equipments they use...
Let's take more impartial holistic approach by also talking about all the nasty weapons provided by the likes of Iran, Russia and China and many other countries to hotspots around the world
this doccie doesn’t talk about the USA and soviets’ roles … none of the weapons/military hardware used by either side are made in lran or lraq - so the motives of their providers could be considered … 🤷🏽♂️
@@ikr9358 in 1953 coup d'etat the British was the main benefiter from it and they deceived the US to support there claims in Iran In 1956 saw the US did not support Britain and France in their attack in Egypt so you can see that US sometimes deal poorly with their foreign diplomacy and spend the next 10 years trying to solve it like iran Iraq war, the gulf war, 2003 Iraq war,2011 Syria civil war and now the Israel -hamas war which will affect US middle east politics for the next 10 years 😅😅
@@ikr9358I reckon Iran would be more similar to Turkey today. Can’t rule out religious extremism taking some hold, given the situation in the neighboring countries.
Years ago the RUclips channel Cut did a series were they talked to people who have killed about that experience. One of them was an Iraqi vet of this war. This was the first I had heard of the Iran Iraq war.
My father was a major, in the Iranian Royal Army, and was dismissed from the army after the mullah's invasion (1979) but he went back because of war. Still MIA after 45 years. And no, 1953 was NOT a coup. Mossadegh betrayed Iran by dismantling the parliament. He was hoping to gift the entire country to the USSR
what a bunch of ideologically charged bs... the CIA admitted its a coup, everyone knows its a coup. It's all out in the open but you willingly choose to be ignorant. He wanted to gift the entire country back to the Iranian people, of course imperialist UK and US can't have that.
10:39 You can't expect to win a war like that, as you can't always expect things to go your way. The US Civil War Confederacy and the WWII Japanese found out this the hard way, despite early successes.
Imagine if history was taught in such a fashion at our schools. That wouldn't serve the narrative at all. I've been interested in this war since deploying to Iraq in 2003. The conflict was shelved a long time ago and it's place in history is relegated to a few sentences at best.
“Both were very sweet looking old men, but don’t let that deceive you, for they were both ruthless dictators and both dreamed of reuniting the Persian Gulf under their own regime.”
Downward spiral for Iraq started on the day they thought they can defeat Iran with the help of their western “allies”. So unfortunate how many lives were needlessly destroyed.
My father was in that war and he said The Iranians were attacking in the form of huge human waves, and despite the modern weapons that the Iraqis had, the pressure of the human waves led us to fight back, but he said that in just one day, 11,000 soldiers fell on the Iranian side, while the Iraqi army lost 2,700 soldiers. It was a massacre.
Yes, you told us about your dad in your other post. In fact, it occurs to me that the purpose of your posts seems to be enjoying highlighting Iranian fatalities
It's like you didnt pay attention at any point of the video. This is so vastly more than just about the ego of Saddam Hussein. Maybe you should watch it again without only hearing what you want to hear.
Very simple, Saddam put to power by US money, Saddam fought Iran because that's what the US wanted, in turn the territory of Kuwait would be returned to Iraq, it wasn't, Saddam began nationalizing Iraq's oil and selling oil contracts, Saddam had to go and the country occupied by US
I think the US overthrowing the elected government of Iran and putting the Shah into power was probably the biggest single cause for the mess in the region since the British and French drawing up the borders. So much that happened after that is the direct fallout of this. Eisenhower seems like such a great guy, but here he did possibly the biggest crime in American foreign politics.
It wasn't exactly what I'd call the elected government. Mosaddegh had cut the election short, disenfranchising rural voters by leaving their seats in parliament empty. He used the political leverage from this act to grant himself dictatorial powers, first for 6 months, then another year, and then tried to get another year after that. He then tried to disband parliament entirely, in a referendum passed by 99.9%. Most probably because voting was done in two separate booths: one for voting no, one for voting yes. (In Ahvaz, 2 people voted no. Not likely in any fair referendum. )Eisenhower, even after this, wasn't sold on the coup until rumor spread that Mosaddegh had intended to exile the Shah entirely. Either way, Mosaddegh or the Shah would have been better than what Iran has now.
@@cheften2mkAs a South Korean whose country was under dictatorship for so long on US side, it must be so easy for you to say. We literally paid with our blood for our democracy and it was a miracle that we did too. You are out here just judging on your ass of how things should be.
It was a wonderful historical coverage episode about the Iran 🇮🇷 Iraq 🇮🇶 war.but it was ignored or hidden. Some important information about that matter is 1- the US defense minister (Donald Ramisfield) demanded in 1979 before war blazed. that Iraq 🇮🇶 attacked Iran sovereigns for 3 months times. 2- Iran aggressiveness started after 14/7/ 1958 ( Iraq military coup against Iraq monarchy regime😢) by different shapes. Shah Iran supported Kurdish( dirty CIA finger)rebellious since 1961 . Iran intelligence supported three coup groups to upset down Baess party regime in Baghdad ( from 1969 to 1973 ) . Iraq 🇮🇶 bravely, furiously protected eastern wing of Sonni Arabic regimes by Iraq 🇮🇶 weapons, Iraq sacrifices, and Iraq blood. But Arabic Gulf principalities and Saudi 🇸🇦 betrayed 😢 Iraq after Iraq became bankrupt financially
The US wanted to embroil Iran which recently overthrew their puppet(the Shah) from power, into a major war to weaken them militarily. The same strategy is being used today in Ukraine, where Sec. Of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted the conflict is to "degrade Russia's military." At the time Saddam was an ally of the US, and we and the French sold him weapons(inclding the chemicals Saddam used to gas Halabja) to execute the war, the US also gave Saddam Sattellite Imagery to use on Iran.
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This was a weird war in that the US supported Iran until the Shah got overthrown. So, they started off with a lot of US military hardware.
Iraq started off as a Soviet satellite in the region. So, they had a lot of Soviet military hardware.
As the war progressed, the US backed Iraq to counter Iran and Iran turned to the Soviet Union for military equipment.
Talk about a turn of events!
😂😂
That was the part I was familiar with, but not what started the war to begin with.
It also happened during the Ethiopia-Somalia war
@@KnightsWithoutATable the Iranian revolution.
There had been border disputes for 4 decades. Saddam was also afraid of a theocratic shia state exporting their influence into his 60% shia state that was largely governed by sunnis. He hoped to take advantage of the chaos of the revolution to pick off the Arab majority region.
But the Arabs did not join him as planned and what was supposed to be a quick little jaunt turned into an 8 year slog.
The Soviets backed Iraq for pretty much the entire war. There was a softening of relations between the USSR and Iran at the end of the war, but at that point the war was almost over and the USSR still had arms agreements with the Iraqis.
The Iranians got most of their equipment from China (who were playing both sides), North Korea, and Syria. Also some aid from the US during the Iran-Contra scandal.
I think it was Metternich who said "We have no eternal allies, we have no eternal enemies. Only our own interests are eternal."
Very important history being covered here by the Intel Report - appreciated on you making these high quality videos available to folks whom otherwise may not have access to such comprehensive historical knowledge.
I wasn't aware about many of those historical grievances and prior clashes between Iran and Iraq in the lead up to the main war in the 80s. I'd previously mostly seen the "opportunistic move by Saddam" framing of how the war started, but it looks like the causes were a lot more murky and ambiguous.
Bigger occidental opportunists decided at some point to put the blame on Saddam to serve their narrative, that's how for me as well he was initially the "villain" in the story... But yeah, here we can see the interventionnism all along on both sides since well before the war...
It's interesting how simple the framing of war so often is, and how they're almost always infinitely more complex and built on a bedrock of bad blood.
It's almost like the western media shifted the narrative to villifiy saddam as a power hungry maniac to justify the invasion of Iraq, wouldn't you say.
Sadly historical narratives just shift because of modern day politics, bashing Iraq was the more trendy thing before the current war in the middle east started, now that Iran is the obvious enemy of the west the narratives just changed and main stream historians started giving more context in what lead up to the war rather than just saying "well Saddam Saddam and Saddam".
I never get tired of how good you guys are at presenting the facts neutrally without buying in to obvious propaganda!
Now, finally, Alan Jackson can learn the difference between Iraq and Iran.
lol I have a feeling he won’t. 😂
Who's Alan Jackson?
Just so we’re on the right page you’re talking about the American country singer Alan Jackson and not some other Alan Jackson that I don’t know.
@@JeditheScribe He's a country singer who made a 9/11 memorial song and in it the god gifted lyric of "I cant tell the difference between Iraq and Iran"
@@saladdressing2781 Got it. 👍
One of my favorite wars to learn about. Thanks for the video!
Thank you all for another highly proffessional unbiased military history report. Truly a rare thing on youtube.
“It’s a pity they both can’t lose.” -Henry Kissinger
Every time I see a new upload, I know I’m about to learn something. The Iran-Iraq war is a blind spot for a lot of folks.
There is at least 5 good docs on this war on yt 😂
@chrisschell90 Most of these documentaries never mention the context of the war and rather use an ignorant narrative that simply paints the war as "Iraq just wanted more land" which is entirely false, the reason why they don't mention it is because their audiences are mainly from the west and Iran under the Shah had the backing of the west to bully Iraq when it was weaker, it's simply more acceptable for western audiences to just look at the wars in the middle east without context because if context was given then you would realize all of these conflicts trace their roots back to either the French British or the Americans.
I just thought it was about oil…thanks for the lesson as always!
Yeah, oil flow was a big part for sure, but not the only part. Some of the other issues were as reported here a bigger part of the reason for the war.
Blaming everything on oil is lazy thinking. The region has long-standing enmities that pre-date the oil industry by centuries. Persians vs. Arabs, Sunni vs Shia, Arabs vs. Kurds. History dating back to the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, old Israel, and of course the Ottoman Empire and the aftermath of WWI when the British Empire reshaped the region. Oil is just one factor.
Oil is so important it is always a consideration, but it isn't the only reason. It's a convenient scapegoat for ignorant people, and people who hate oil (natural gas companies?)
Ironically, it WAS about oil.
Specifically the 1953 coup was about the US and Britain not wanting a british oil company to have to pay too much tax to the Iranian state. So they sabotaged Iran's democracy and ensured the rise of Khomeini. Thanks, guys. Thanks a fucking lot.
Oil is only one part of the broader picture. In my opinion, the primary factor is maritime access, as Iraq has a relatively small coastline.
3:31 The Shah, Mohammadreza Pahlavi, was the head of state since 1941 when his father abdicated after a joint British-Soviet invasion, he didn't come to power after the 1953 coup, the Shah was initially just a constitutional monarch in 1941 but he gradually gained defacto political power in a process that began before the coup (most likely after 1948 attempt on his life) and ended with the declaration of a the one-party state in early 1970s, the coup was just one step in that direction.
As for the name, Iran was officially called "The Imperial State of Iran" since 1925, when the Pahlavi dynasty replaced the Qajar one under which Iran was called "The Sublime State of Iran" or "Guarded Domains of Iran".
Every time a vid like this comes out - it’s a ritual to watch it
Thank you for this nuanced overview of a complex subject!
An interesting view of a conflict that isn't often covered. Great work as always!
Really impressive how quickly yet clearly and compelling you went over the background of grievances before the war. It also got me really curious about how things might have looked today without the Shah.
Thanks for the new video! Always a masterpiece, where I, despite all my pre-existing knowledge about history, learn incredibly many new things.
Another excellent mini documentary.
The Iran-Iraq War is a very understudied conflict IMO
It was the last fully symmetric and conventional armed conflict before current ongoing second russo-ukrainian war. All wars that were in between were either civil wars with foreign involvement (like Yugoslavia and Syria), prolonged Vietnam-like guerilla wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) or have extreme power difference between both sides (1st Gulf War).
@@krazownik3139 Yet it was still ultimately a war between the US lead west and the USSR.
Trench warfare 2 electric boogaloo
@namenameson9065 The western equipment far superior to the soviet crap.
@@namenameson9065The Iran Iraq war really wasn’t. It was one of the very few conflicts during the Cold War were the East-West conflict played little to no role. Iran with its Anti Western and Islamist ideology was disliked by both the Soviet Union and the US.
Saddam looked so much younger then. And, you know, alive.
I wonder if back then, he ever thought about his fate and how he’d end?
I thought it was because Saddam called the Ayatolla a diaper head.
Saddam was racist and hated Persians
Saddam just really hated Persians
I lived through it but was too young to comprehend ramifications of the brutal conflict.
Very good video on the start of the Iran-iraq war, most people do not actually realize that Iraq was not just trying to expand its land and take over as much as it could, and that instead it was forced into the war because of iranian aggression, this video is unbias, and is a repersentation on how all people who write about history should aspire to do, congrats to the team/person who made this video.
What i learned from this video, was that they were getting along fine until the shah came into power and started souring relations, and in their oppressive governance, caused a revolution that in turn caused destabilization in neighboring nations angering Iraq. So, as always blame the British and West lol
The Iraqi weatherman says 'It may be Sunni today but it'll be Shi'ite tomorrow"
Long story short Saddam was genuinely concerned that post-revolutionary Iran was on a course towards destabilising or invading Iraq at some point so he decided to hit first.
This is a stunningly balanced assessment of events.
The video states that Iraq only had eyes on the tiny region in the south West of Iran, but Saddam, upon starting the military campaign, was quoted as saying : "we'll reach Tehran in three days".
Because if the capital falls, the war ends. Iraq would not be able to conquer Iran if that's what you're claiming.
Saddam walked so Putin could run straight into a wall
@@hamsterox9216 you lost bro get over it
@samblu9772 we lost, the day Khomeini came to power, that was our loss. We lost our country to mullahs. But as far as losing the war goes, the borders remained the same, the regimes remained the same. Only both countries lost thousands of men and were on the brink of bankruptcy after the war. There were no winners. There were no gains.
But if it makes you feel better to think you've won, who am I to disagree. Here it goes: Hurrah, you won.
I appreciate this channel being one of, if not the first, to actually represent the truth behind this conflict. Iraq is always vilified in the context of this war to legitimize the taking down of Saddam. Nothing frustrates me more then seeing people treating Iran as the innocent doves in this conflict. Iraq's claim to victory in this war should hopefully make a little more sense at least to some of the people watching since Iraq was able to halt Iran from further hostile incursions against their soverignty. We, today, are seeing the ramifications of Iranian imperial ambitions in the region, and I hope more people can understand just how much of a shit-show American foreign policy has been in the region for the past 50 plus years.
iran defeated iraq and stopped saddam from taking iranian regions. we then pushed into iraq after that and made sure he was bankrupted and would never be able to attack us again. Iraq today is now a colony of iran as it should be
@@samblu9772 "Iraq today is now a colony of iran as it should be". Ladies and gentlemen the Persian plague and it's ever present vicious ambition manifest.
@@hamsterox9216 bro ur in our rear view
I'm holding my breath and won't be taking you seriously until you do a full video on The Great Emu War!!!!?
Thanks for covering this war. For obvious reasons, this doesn't get as much coverage on yt history channels as it should but this conflict shaped the middle east we know today. I am glad you're taking the risk and depicting the events that more people should know about and understand.
“For obvious reasons…”
Yeah, like being a border war between two shitholes that no one who matters cares about unless they’re destabilizing the world order.
This was a very important and not well covered piece of history that I was not very familiar with. Thanks for covering it in a video for us to enjoy learning from.
Thank you for the Video, do you mind telling me the source of some of the Videos?
especially 0:30, 1:15
Thank You!
0:30 - Fighting In The Iran-Iraq War: Internet Archive
1:15 - Wars in Peace - Iran Iraq War: Internet Archive
@@flynno Thank you appreciated!
Thanks for covering as always!
Excellent as always
Ok, hope for Battle of Khasham 2018AD vid
That would be incredible. I wonder if there is enough detailed information on the operation available to make an Operation's Room level video on it.
This is a fair and balanced approach. You lay out the complexities that render any moral judgement very difficult. In a RUclips full of propaganda, you stand out as an actual historian, at least on this issue.
Nice i was hoping you'd cover the Iran-Iraq war! A war that deserves more western coverage. I hope you talk about the subsequent tanker war and how Iraq got lots of its Chemical weapons from France, Britain and the US
Well I guess we dont like to speak too much of all those conflicts we're only fueling for our own interests and making huge profits out of... It's never their own equipments they use...
Let's take more impartial holistic approach by also talking about all the nasty weapons provided by the likes of Iran, Russia and China and many other countries to hotspots around the world
10:38 never seen an rpg with a bipod before
this doccie doesn’t talk about the USA and soviets’ roles … none of the weapons/military hardware used by either side are made in lran or lraq - so the motives of their providers could be considered … 🤷🏽♂️
Finally, RUclips recommended me something interesting!
8 years of fighting, 400k lives wasted, and neither nation gained anything. 🤦♂️
A moderate and balanced effort to comment..... deeply appreciated
Excellent video
Peaceful community enjoying peace
Very informative and educational
Great job as always!
Ah the good ol' "it will be a short war, we are the greatest warriors"-hybris
Another great video
Thanks for these deep dives!
Love your videos, thanks for making them
Are there any good, in-depth, and English videos out there on this war? Like any recommended RUclipsrs or free documentaries.
Search for the operations room. They have several videos on the subject in RUclips style.
same guy lol@@rwarren58
In 1979Iranians jumped from the frying pan straight to the stove.
The fact that IF the US pushed harder for Iranian defeat would be a totally different middle east now
I'm curious as to what it would be like if the US had supported the democratic government in 1953.
@@ikr9358 in 1953 coup d'etat the British was the main benefiter from it and they deceived the US to support there claims in Iran
In 1956 saw the US did not support Britain and France in their attack in Egypt so you can see that US sometimes deal poorly with their foreign diplomacy and spend the next 10 years trying to solve it like iran Iraq war, the gulf war, 2003 Iraq war,2011 Syria civil war and now the Israel -hamas war which will affect US middle east politics for the next 10 years 😅😅
@@ikr9358I reckon Iran would be more similar to Turkey today. Can’t rule out religious extremism taking some hold, given the situation in the neighboring countries.
Where do you get your war footage
Good Channel
Years ago the RUclips channel Cut did a series were they talked to people who have killed about that experience. One of them was an Iraqi vet of this war. This was the first I had heard of the Iran Iraq war.
Nice doc!
Love the unbiased commentary.
"You can't re-enact WW1 with Cold War weapons!"
"That's where you're wrong, kiddo."
Thanks, great video!
That is the danger of accumulating power to a single person, they would do anything to keep it.
Like Putin
Great video as always
Keep up the amazing work
Brilliant video, thx.
Great summary of Iraq Iran war. It would be nice to have a video about how Iran gained influence after Saddam died in Iraq.
My father was a major, in the Iranian Royal Army, and was dismissed from the army after the mullah's invasion (1979) but he went back because of war. Still MIA after 45 years.
And no, 1953 was NOT a coup. Mossadegh betrayed Iran by dismantling the parliament. He was hoping to gift the entire country to the USSR
Great story. But did you have any good sources to read about Mossadeg plans? It's essentially portrayed as a CIA plot in the west.
Can't be ignored. The Soviets did the coup first, as usual. The western coup was more like restoring the law lol.
what a bunch of ideologically charged bs... the CIA admitted its a coup, everyone knows its a coup. It's all out in the open but you willingly choose to be ignorant. He wanted to gift the entire country back to the Iranian people, of course imperialist UK and US can't have that.
I wish more people would understand that. Mossadegh had the worst intentions yet people try to portray him as some Ghandi-like character.
Awesome video! I’ve come to LOVE this channel.
Thanks for a good history lesson. Learned so much about Arab diplomacy.
10:39 You can't expect to win a war like that, as you can't always expect things to go your way. The US Civil War Confederacy and the WWII Japanese found out this the hard way, despite early successes.
Imagine if history was taught in such a fashion at our schools. That wouldn't serve the narrative at all. I've been interested in this war since deploying to Iraq in 2003. The conflict was shelved a long time ago and it's place in history is relegated to a few sentences at best.
Good video
One of the best historians on RUclips. Thank you
“Both were very sweet looking old men, but don’t let that deceive you, for they were both ruthless dictators and both dreamed of reuniting the Persian Gulf under their own regime.”
nice video
Downward spiral for Iraq started on the day they thought they can defeat Iran with the help of their western “allies”. So unfortunate how many lives were needlessly destroyed.
Did you even watch the video or no?
My father was in that war and he said The Iranians were attacking in the form of huge human waves, and despite the modern weapons that the Iraqis had, the pressure of the human waves led us to fight back, but he said that in just one day, 11,000 soldiers fell on the Iranian side, while the Iraqi army lost 2,700 soldiers. It was a massacre.
@@alijasim-f16 Iran controls Iraq now. I think the iraqi casualties since then to now have been 4-5 million
Maybe because we the western nations needed the oil....forget the mullions of lives lost and injured for the quest for black gold
My dad was in this war and he killed 7 Iranian soldiers but he still feels sorry until this moment.😢
Yes, you told us about your dad in your other post. In fact, it occurs to me that the purpose of your posts seems to be enjoying highlighting Iranian fatalities
My Iranian uncle got 10 Iraqis
He enjoyed it though
Oh dang thats me
Good overview. But a lot more was happening.
Certain people forget that the Iran Iraq War killed more people than any other war since WW2.
Didnt the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 kill more people? Or at least the genocide against Bengalis did
I think you yourself have forgotten about the Vietnam war
Such a pointless war, caused by the ego of its dictator. Thanks for covering this topic as always.
It's like you didnt pay attention at any point of the video. This is so vastly more than just about the ego of Saddam Hussein. Maybe you should watch it again without only hearing what you want to hear.
Awesome stuff
I was Israel and US who created this war to seeing both powers in the region destroy each other’s
“A wild ass of a man”. Still apt millennia later.
thank you
Very simple, Saddam put to power by US money, Saddam fought Iran because that's what the US wanted, in turn the territory of Kuwait would be returned to Iraq, it wasn't, Saddam began nationalizing Iraq's oil and selling oil contracts, Saddam had to go and the country occupied by US
So what's the short answer?
Power, resources, ethnic division
The date you gave in which the war started and end are not correct
I think the US overthrowing the elected government of Iran and putting the Shah into power was probably the biggest single cause for the mess in the region since the British and French drawing up the borders. So much that happened after that is the direct fallout of this.
Eisenhower seems like such a great guy, but here he did possibly the biggest crime in American foreign politics.
There have been worse.
Wrong
Oh please they created their own mess and have had decades to sort it out but haven't
It wasn't exactly what I'd call the elected government. Mosaddegh had cut the election short, disenfranchising rural voters by leaving their seats in parliament empty. He used the political leverage from this act to grant himself dictatorial powers, first for 6 months, then another year, and then tried to get another year after that. He then tried to disband parliament entirely, in a referendum passed by 99.9%. Most probably because voting was done in two separate booths: one for voting no, one for voting yes. (In Ahvaz, 2 people voted no. Not likely in any fair referendum. )Eisenhower, even after this, wasn't sold on the coup until rumor spread that Mosaddegh had intended to exile the Shah entirely. Either way, Mosaddegh or the Shah would have been better than what Iran has now.
@@cheften2mkAs a South Korean whose country was under dictatorship for so long on US side, it must be so easy for you to say. We literally paid with our blood for our democracy and it was a miracle that we did too. You are out here just judging on your ass of how things should be.
Well told factual report of a recent historical and lethal event has been accomplished here.
the obvious answer is to see which letter should end the word IRA_
So why did it start
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I think the #1 takeaway is don't make geopolitical decisions based on religion
I like this video
The US wanted to embroil Iran which recently overthrew their puppet(the Shah) from power, into a major war to weaken them militarily. The same strategy is being used today in Ukraine, where Sec. Of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted the conflict is to "degrade Russia's military." At the time Saddam was an ally of the US, and we and the French sold him weapons(inclding the chemicals Saddam used to gas Halabja) to execute the war, the US also gave Saddam Sattellite Imagery to use on Iran.
The war did not come to an end in 1998. Maybe you should double check your numbers if you call yourself the INTEL report.
So every time they start crawling out of the stone age some revolutionary cleric drags them all back again.