Germany didn't start targeting British civilians until the British had already started bombing German cities. Hitler, especially early on, still held on to hope that he could declare peace with UK in a few months and the two races could possibly form an alliance against US one day (the real string-pullers of 'international jewry'). UK bombed non-military targets first, in the hopes of hitting logistics targets in 1940.
Wow wtf is everyone saying in reply to your comment. On the precise matter of bombing civilians to reduce their moral but ended up having the opposite effect - the comparison is sound. Although both the British and Germans tried and failed at this. Hitler wanting peace with the UK? If you have a source to this please share. I think you're referring to the unofficial stalemate which happened when Germany made it across the European continent to the west but couldn't cross the sea to Britain. This only happened as Britain's Navy was significantly more powerful that Germany's. It was then when Hitler broke the non-aggressive pact with USSR and tried to invade them. From memory I do believe it true the British bombed German civilians first, in Berlin. I have read the squadron which did this became lost as night runs were a relatively new tactic and bombed Berlin by mistake. Hitler then retaliated with his own bombing runs on civilians. Even still, the Brits did cross the line with their civilian bombing runs which forced even themselves to question how far they were going. WW2 was pretty fucked.
komigennufan hahah Hezbollah is in Lebanon not Afghanistan you know what your government did when the soviets invaded Afghanistan they created al Queada to kill the communist and then Al Queada used American tax payer money to fly the planes in the towers search it up. Tell me how Hezbollah is a terrorist group give me a example and I will contour you with something bad the U.S did hell I will even pre counter you the U.S blew up a Iranian passenger plane killed 275 people including 75 children , theplane did nothing wrong as proven in U.S data bases . It was 100% authorized to fly an what happened after that the U.S said they are sorry then gave the captain that shoot down the plane a metal. Look at all the countries th U.S is in Iraq,Syria,Libya,Somalia tell me that your proud of what they did. If it wasn’t for America ISIS wouldn’t even be able to step an inch in Iraq with the power Paul army.
The old Iranian regime were allies with Israel,so Israel wanted to keep Iran as an ally,however,it is believed the Israel supported the Kurds after they were bombed by Iraq(Israel)
+Oliver Morland Israel wasn't supplying Iran with weapons to maintain Iranian support for them. In the video, the Iran-Contra affairs is mentioned. Basically, US president Ronald Reagan wanted to keep funding the Contra fighters in Nicaragua, but Congress refused to pass it. So he decided to secretly sell weapons to Iran and use the proceeds to keep funding the Contras. Now to do all this "secretly" is where Israel came into play. And why did they fund Iran of all? People may have different views about this, if you watch the movie "Lord of War", there is scene which shows an Israeli arms dealer boasting to the protagonist of the movie, played by Nicolas Cage, that he sold weapons to both Iran and Iraq during the 1980s war. When Cage argued that the arms dealers was just a businessman without any political motives and he didn't care as to who won or who lost, the dealer replied, "Did it never occurred to you that I wanted both the countries to lose?"
Sabbir Saadat That's interesting. But I still think Israel's government was in favour of Iran during the war, mainly because Iraq was so hostile to Israel and Iran had been much less hostile to Israel before the revolution. And they probably hoped that would continue with post-shah Iran.
Oliver Morland Pre-revolution Iran (an Iran with more civil and religious liberties but a puppet US dictatorship with a brutal secret police force, the Savaks, suppressing any kind of political dissent or calls for reform) is entirely at odds with the post revolution one (a theocratic regime pioneering in the slogan "death to America"). I believe people in Israeli politics were informed and shrewd enough to realize that now they had not one, but two formidable foes.
+Oliver Morland Without help from Israel, Iran would not have been successfull in the few battles which they managed to win. Israel gave the Khomeini regime spare parts for their fighter aircraft and their US made tanks, and also gave them hundreds of TOW launchers + missiles and spare parts + missiles for HAWK SAM. At the same time Iranians were shouting Death to USA and Death to Israel and Khomeini held speeches during every friday prayers, denying getting helped by the same countries he vowed to destroy, it was a spectacle bizarre scene.
Hello from Mexico, I was very young when I used to watch almost everyday the 2:00 o'clock news, the news on the PERSIAN GOLF WAR, that's what they called it back then and I never understood quite well what was this war about, and I am sure most of the mexicans didn't either, we only used to say "poor people, why are they fighting???, there must be a lot of people dying in both countries" and so on. Today is clear to me, that many wars in this region have been caused or at least encouraged by foreign interests, shame on them for doing such an evil act of destruction. I just hope there's a god so he can make them pay for what they have done!!!
How is this war, in specific, caused by foreign interests? This seems to be motivated by the interests of Iran and Iraq, and much of the Cold War in the Middle East was fomented by Middle Eastern nations. No doubt, foreign interests were involved, but saying it was the root cause is foolish.
thank you for being educated 😚 people don't know the foreign powers that get in between these countries and push them to fight I am actually from Iraq and I read the history of middle east it was mostly effected by UK and france
Dependes how you look at it, one way to look is that if Iran still had that democratic government that was dropped by foreign powers, there would have been no war at all.
Not true both countries did so and many countries do to this day it’s called conscription and Iran sent child soldiers also Iran is unable to help their vets from the war
R U gay?.. on the contrary! go and check Iran weapons it's all American and Israeli weapons perhaps Iraq then have only Soviet and Chinese weapons..we know who dear if US then😅
@@user-ey6uh3iu9z dumb ass first learn how to write properly and secondly they provided all the logistic support to saddam at that time when he started his offense against Iran.. Go first read a history then come here
@@user-ey6uh3iu9z the US gave the weapons to their Shah minion before the revolution. American minions in the region are still reliant on their weapons and military bases while Iranians are developing their own weapons.
it was not precice nor accurate. Who gave iraq the poisen gas? Why was Iran a theocraty? Why did the US support the illigal attack war? Dont forget to show how damaging the US politics were. Iran once was a democracy, thanks to the usa, they are now a theocratic goverment.
Iran's modern government is the most democratic Iran has ever had, the Shah slaughtered all his opponents and the U.S happily backed him. The Shah didn't even try to make his constitution look real.
anonymous anonymous How exactly? And don't link me to Wikipedia. The article in the footnote there just has an Israeli considering joining forces with Iran since they have a common enemy now.
Jabzy You mixed up the current Supreme Leader Khamenei with Khomeini 1-Khomeni NOT Khamenei. So gotta change that Khamenei image. 2-Iran's Khuzestan over the years was diluted from a solid Arab majority due to the settling of Farsi speakers from the heartland by the Shahs. But as someone just pointed out it's majority Arab.
***** Relax baba. I know about most of these things. But if you look into it, you'll see that since the time of Reza Shah, they had been moving Farsi-speakers from Yazd and central Iran into those areas to dilute it. But yeah it's majority Arab. And I can talk however I want to. I was 6 years old when the war ended. Whatever I know is from second hand accounts. I still have some faint memories of Iraqi planes flying over Tehran. That's it. And Shah giving away Bahrain? Has nothing to do with me dude.
Monarchists? Are you kidding me? They're either dead or about to die or are so irrelevant that nobody even remembers them. If you look around a little, you'll see that the two Shahs both moved Farsi people into Iran's non-Farsi areas. Khuzestan was no exception. Sheikh Khazal was one such separatist. Your stats and tale about the early days of the Iran-Iraq war could be right. But the point is that, ethnic dilution has been going on there for years. They changed the name of "GharaDagh" to "Siyah-Kooh" and have been changing names of Azerbainjan's cities to Farsi names. It won't change the majority language that people speak there, but it shows that this government, as well as the last one, is trying to deal with Iran's ethnic diversity by making them all Farsi which is stupid. There's a better way to handle this. All they gotta do is give them some rights, such as local language classes and what not.
Great content as always! Why did you stop doing lists? They were cool Also, I think it would be great to see you focus on some great historical personalities like Galileo, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Joan of Arc, Alcibiades, Caesar, soo many! :)
ChessArt I've just been bogged down at work and spend a load of time making the 3 Minute History videos. What I'm hoping to do is wait until I have a few more subscribers and ask for help in suggestions for lists because it used to take me too long to decide on a list.
@@daniarassyrian8907It was Saddam's mistake to try and invade Iran and then Kuwait. Saddam considered himself very powerful so he tried invading whoever he considered a threat to his power. Unfortunately, Saddam's aggression against Shias in Iraq not only resulted in American invasion in Iraq but also resulted in the growth and secterianism and therefore the growth of groups like ISIS in Iraq. Iraq faces the consequences of Saddam's actions today.
Goes to show you how Iran, fighting with the leftover weapons, aircraft & navy from Shah's army against the entire world, was becoming an unstoppable super power under Shah. Iranian ppl did Shah wrong. Hope he forgives us.
its kinda like the yugoslav wars... when bosnians started pushing into serbia after taking sarajevo back the UN forced peace talks through bombing yet did nothing as the serbs genocided the croats and bosnians. In the iran-iraq war the UN only got involved for their own interests. UN is just a useless group of bullies that help their allies gang up on who they dont like to get what they want. Fuck the UN!
lol we are Muslim too. but we arent nut jobs who have a brigade dedicated to clearing mine fields with their own fucking bodies. Maybe its because they were defending their homeland or soemthing
Iran and Iraq both became militarized after oil prices steeped. Saddam had the 5th largest army in the world, and the Shah had 4th. They had many military quarrels, the last of which was over Shattul Arab (aka Arvand River) in which the Shah took control of the river using his military might. Now Khomeini was exiled into Saddam’s Iraq for several years during Shah’s reign, and was fully aware of how Saddam does things. When he took power after the revolution, he called for another revolution of the Iraqi people to topple Saddam’s regime and replace it with an Islamic one, and the calls were heeded by many Iraqis. This, and the shaky state of Iranian military compared to Shah’s time, as well as the green light from the West, led Saddam to initiate the attack.
2:07 Until about 1986 there were still Iranian city's under iraqi controls. Also the reason that iran continued was not to take a chunk but to Iraq be known as starter of war in UN resolution and stopping Sadam from attacking because a ceasefire would get him a chance to regroup his army. Although after resolution 598 still was some conflicts and even after while Sadam being unpunished attacked Kuwait.
I hope the relations between Iraq and Iran are better now almost 3 decades after the war. It's so sad to see so many people dying because of wars all over the world The last war we really fought here in Brazil has almost two centuries now. I guess we forget sometimes how lucky we are
khuzestan isnt mainly inhabited by arabs as its 75% ethnically Persian (Lurs and bakhtiaris inckuded). only the city of ahvaz is majority arab, nd thats only by a small percentage.
Hi Jabzy, as a fellow CZcamsr I should thank you for your unbiased short summary of Iran Iraq war. The horrific war that scarred so many families and held back to societies for decades. ------------------------------------------- As an Iranian expatriate however, I again need to thank you for maintaining impartiality in the midst of such noisy media propaganda. all the best A.M.G.
so Iraq was receiving weapons from the rest of the world and they even used chemical weapons and still lost the fight.... all my respect for all the Iraninans who fought against Iraq... no respect for Iraq for fight such an unfair fight ....
Except of Israel, USA , USSR, French, Syria and Libya who supported Iran! Also Iranians bombed Iraqi schools, universities and they used chemical weapons 🙂 I don't know if you are a really fool or they fooled you
Iranians have shown that they can be united when the time comes. Doesnt matter if they like or dont like their government. They fight for eachother and also for others.
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Very adequate description, really. It's difficult to accurately describe many contemporary wars without also adopting a bias, but you've handled the Iran-Iraq War with the careful objectivity so many professional historians and journalists unfortunately seem to lack. Bravo, truly
You don't understand the Sunni vs Shiite dispute. It is extremely important in that part of the world. It has been going on for more than 13 centuries now.
+MILINATION .MILIANO you are absolutely right. The conflict was remarkably similar to the Western Front of the First World War. It was an anachronism of a modern conflict fought with modern weapons using ancient tactics. It was a war fought with trenches and chemical weapons, barbed wire and artillery, airplanes and naval blockades. It was long, drawn out, bloody war which greatly traumatized the populations of both sides and sowed the seeds for future conflicts. It was also a war born from very old historical rivalries. Iran and the Ottoman Empire had fought numerous wars over Mesopotamia, which had historically been a Persian heartland and the location of many of Iran's great ancient capitals like Ctesiphon.
Very well done I'm currently half way through Iran Iraq war by Pierre razoux its crazy how Much meddling the super powers and other nations had in both countries affairs
Iran recaptured Basra in 1986 during the first battle of al-faw and operation Karbala 5. They held it until the Iraqis counter-attacks in 1988 and Iran also bombed Baghdad for revenge on the bombings of Tehran.
@@argadargad9128 Iraq was a colonial puppet causing infighting and invading nearby countries at the US's command, They claim to denounce Israel but it seems they have taken every step towards achieving Israel's goals, Saddam Hussein was imprisoning, Killing and torturing Shiites, Kurds and other minorities, Iran aided a revolution against an oppressive regime and they fought Iraq and her many collaborators with old Shah era weapons and still won not as the bully but against him.
It's interesting to note that a few years before the start of the Iran Iraq war, Saddam sent a division into Iran, over the Shat Al Arab waterway. The Iranian air force, by itself, wiped out Saddam's tank division in one stroke and this convinced Saddam to avoid escalating the conflict. After the revolution, the Iranian military experienced the second largest military purge of the 20th century (after Stalin's purges prior to WW2 in the eastern front which allowed Hitler to swarm into Russia initially almost unopposed) Half of Iran's soldiers had defected during the revolution, 5000 PLUS of the top officers had been purged, imprisoned or assassinated and all the top generals had been purged as well. Basically Iran's military was a shadow of it's pre revolutionary self. Saddam on the other hand had the latest tanks from the Soviet Union and the latest jets from France, along with intel from the US and unlimited funding from the Persian Gulf Arab States. Despite all this, after the first 2 years of fighting, Saddam's forces had been repelled from all Iranian territories and Saddam and Saudi Arabia offered Iran hundreds of billions to cease fighting, but Khomeini was convinced that his military could conquer all of Iraq within another year or two. If it had not been for the massive loans given to Saddam by the Persian Gulf Arab states, like the first loan of 250 BILLION (remember this is back then, it would be worth trillions today) Saddam's regime would have gone bankrupt and lost the war because of lack of supplies. In the end, even with the loans, the Iranians were on the verge of victory, so along with the satellite imagery, which helped guide the Iraqi artillery against Iranian positions, the US and Germany sold Saddam chemical weapons, which he used not only on Iranian soldiers and civilians but also on his own northern Kurdish population, wiping out entire villages. In the end, the war left millions dead and wounded and had the opposite effect of strengthening Khomeini's Iranian regime, as opposed to weakening it, which is what the west and Saddam were initially expecting.
The intelligence by itself was crucial, as the united states began to step up its satellite imagery after Iran captured al faw, as they were fearing that Iraq will next lose basra. The satellite imagery was a crucial factor that led to operation karbala 4 not being able to capture abu al hasib and umm al rasas and the martyrdom of many combat divers who were buried alive after being captured. Iran learnt from this and then began to train its UAV crews and used them for reconnaissance, which helped photograph images of iraqi fortifications for the successful operation karbala 5
iran was the winer of the war. why?! well, look at where iran is standing today n look what happened to iraq. the real victor will appear atleast after a decade of finishing war
+Overlord 854 u need to think deeper mate then u understand what im trying to say. even the US invation iraq was bcs of the lack of power in iraq, n it was still related to the 8 yrs full scale war with iran. otherwise iran was under sanction too just like iraq
+Overlord 854 actually irans jeopolitics is very unic. there are only two countries on earth that can be at a huge war for 10 yrs n still able to handle themselves n survive, its the US n Iran. china n india could be aswell but their population is too high, n they wont be able to feed their ppl
Still Iran wasnt the core of Iraq's problems, they destroyed themselves with stupid decisions and poor administration, but Iran was not the winner in that war no one was
+Overlord 854 so except those two the rest of the world can not handle such a war, specially a war like iran,iraq war, cuz it was iran on one side n 84 countries united againts iran on the under side arming seddam army to its teeth. its very interesting if u take time n search, u find things that u could never think by ur own
This is pretty good as far as it goes but it's a bit loose with the timeline. The gassing of the Kurds at Halabja was very late in the war. Otherwise, it covers many of the major issues. The only thing I'd add - more for general information than total assessment - is the inclusion of the basij, Iranian child soldiers who were frequently slaughtered in those human wave assaults..
amin nadim It did during the Iran Iraq war. In fact, they both shared a mutual dislike for the arab nations so they did work together at times. But now their relationship has deteriorated into bitter hatred.
TheCompulsiveWinner Iran doesn't hold relations with Israel because unlike the Arab countries, Iran doesn't put up with their shit. Also, Iran is a strong ally of Hezbollah.
+TheCompulsiveWinner So what ? Because they are both Non-Arabs they have to team up ? it's like saying ISIS and Iran has to team up because they are both muslims (this logic is retarted). You can have Arab freinds but you want to have a freind that wants to divide your countries into small pieces like it's doing to Iraq and Syria ? You are free to do that
I say that as an Iraqi there are two reasons for the war 1_ Khomeini attempted to plant racism and differentiate between the two dominant sects (Sunnis and Shiites) 2_ Support them for the Kurdish revolution and the Pyramid of Algeria announced the Algiers Convention
Nice video and explanation. 1983 the war could have been over. Hundred thousands of lives could have been saved. But nobody in Iran questions the Regime why the war was continued, which caused the further death of thousands of Iranian Soldiers and citizens. Not to mention the shooting of an Iranian Airliner by an American Warship that took the life of hundreds of Iranians as well. Also why did the Regime took American diplomats as hostages for more than 400 days and isolated the country even further? Iranians should really bring up those questions. That would get the Mullahs in a lot of trouble.
We went further with the war because Iraq troops were heavily stationed at our borders,and we couldn't trust Saddam because he did had already broken a cease fire,so we invaded them,pushed them back,but then there was the idea of taking over Iraq,which was a bit suicidal at the time,so we got heavy casualties and the the US involvement happened and forced us to accept the 598 resolution,but then Saddam helped the MEK(Mujahedeen Khalgh) to invade Kermanshah.
I am an Iranian - Canadian and was born during this war and to this day I suffer from thus wars effects and things I saw as a kid both countries leaders were stupid and for their own gain made their people suffer and so many lives were lost specially on irans side cause so many of the volunteer soldiers were kids as young as 12!!!!!
We Iraqis never wanted war with iran...stupid dictator saddam did and we love people of Iran and others Whatever who won or lost and who stated it I'm sure that both people didn't want war and only uneducated people who get into it
Genuine_84 , first ,was really our leader stupid. come on,if he was we are now lost our lands,second ,they start the war and we didnt do any thing to them,why do we say these things i have no idea,boy standing toward enemy has less expnses than let them beat u
Jabzy, you got pretty much everything right except at the end when Iraq went on the offensive the Iranians could not beat us back. Our 1988 offensives and occupation of much Iranian territory forced Khomayni to end the war, and then we pulled back.
No, false. Iraq withdrew after Iranian counterattacks after the failed Tawakalna Iraqi offensives which were intended as a surprise attack however the offensive bogged down into a stalemate, once Imam Khomeini issued speech urging all revolutionary fighters to go to the south. He was almost about to issue a fatwa for holy war. Seeing as Iraq couldn’t hold onto south, they withdrew and we even had the potential to re invade Iraq however Imam Khomeini forbade it. Iraq then became desperate and funded MEK to invade but once again they were crushed during Operation Mersad. Typical butthurt baathist upset he lost the war lying to deceive others from his failure
Iraq being supported so much during the war with Iran meant that even if it was despised on the world stage, Iraq wasn’t super worried when they invaded Kuwait. How fast the West was willing to condemn countries on the edge of their sphere of influence was a surprise to Saddam, and something he kept trying to bring up a lot during his trail (alongside a lot of other things).
that was not the case, at the end Iraq destroyed the Iranian Army and had the chance to take over Iran, but they did not want to have more losses in that war, plus the US pushed the UN to help stopping the war.
komigennufan reality is that the world superpowers funded Iraq’s military while Iran was fresh out of a revolution with no management. Whether this is about Islam is subjective, but it definitely was iran vs the world
komigennufan komigennufan bruh what have you been reading. Russia funded Iraq, not Iran because Khomeini was against communists. China did not give support, Iran just bought weapons from them. Regarding Israel that’s ridiculous, they are mortal enemies. I’m sorry but Syria Libya and North Korea don’t compare to the support Iraq was given. I didn’t learn this from Khomeini, this is literal facts
komigennufan if you do one quick google search, you’d know that Russia supported Iraq WAY more than it did to iran. It’s also speculated that Israel sold $100M worth of weapons to Iran. Now compare that to $46 BILLION worth of funding iraq received just from SA, Kuwait, and the UAE alone. Iraq still failed its invasion 💀 this is why iran won
In 1988, Iraq defeated Iran, and Khomeini himself said, “I drank poison after the Iraqis recaptured Al-Faw,” and because they recaptured Al-Faw, Khomeini’s nose was broken and the ceasefire was forced, and this is the truth without lying. I love Iraq more than Russia 🇮🇶
Kuwait was neutral from 1980-1982. In 1982, the Iranians tried to assassinate Kuwait's leadership, so, the Kuwaitis started helping the Iraqis along with over Gulf countries. Those other countries, like Saudia Arabia, waived Iraq's debt to them. However, Kuwait was slant-drilling into Iraqi oil fields & selling more than their OPEC quota, lowering oil prices and damaging Iraq's economy. So, Saddam got pissed that they were ungrateful and invaded.
The video was good, but one mistake was that Khuzestan was never disputed, Iraq started to make the revisionist claim to Irans Khuzestan during abd al Karim Qasim to make himself look more nationist to Iraq's Sunni Arab elite, but failed and was killed in an American supported Batthist coup.
Jabzy, you got pretty much everything right except at the end when Iraq went on the offensive the Iranians could not beat us back, after Khomayni submitted to the ceasefire proposal, we withdrew from Iranian territory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawakalna_ala_Allah_Operations
***** Well The majority of Iran's air force was trained by Israel in the 80's, 30 tanks that originally made in Israel, troops and generals advised by Israel and some in Israel, Israel destroying Iraq's WMD's capabilities, The Iran contra Affair and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan would disagree with you on how alone Iran really was.
***** No there is clear evidence that Israel was helping the Iranian military as it states "throughout the war there was always a couple hundred Israeli advisors in Tehran". This all happened after the revolution. As well Iran was supporting Shia Mujahideen against the USSR which came in contact frequently with Israel, China, Egypt and Turkey building relations to arm and fight off Soviets from threatening the region even more if they would've won the war. And again this was during the Iran Iraq war and after the Shah was overthrown.
Unfortunately Iran has always been subject to the worst atrocities and yet they are portrayed in the media as the hostile one ! but yet I think it was us who always us who brought it upon us !
I spoke with an Iranian fighter pilot during the shah and he said the II war was khomeni's fault not Saddam's khomeni were giving orders to militias with ties to start a bombing campaign in Iraq. Iran thought Iraq was like KSA where they can harrass them, support this militia or that militia but the Iraqi response came swift
komigennufan “pretty quick invasion”. See idk about that. Saddam was so cocky he said “I’ll make an announcement in Tehran after tomorrow”, implying how easy and quick it’ll be to invade, but couldn’t get passed the border for over 40 days 🤐 regardless of saddam’s motives, the intent was to invade and he failed, hence why I said “manly moustache” didn’t win for shit lmao
komigennufan no it’s not empty talk, he 100% believed he could. He thought that getting billions of dollars of aid from global superpowers was enough to crush a new born nation. Anyone would think that. Whatever he said, one of his motives was to take the Arab populated part of Iran (khuzestan) as there is a lot of oil there, so that could very well be “empty talk” as well. Moreover, Iran pretty much controls Iraq today (not that I agree with), so I doubt Iraqis ultimately won. Most Iraqis side with Iran anyways since they’re Shia. “Saddam knew exactly the UN laws”...yeah that’s why he invaded Kuwait..maybe “you” should think before opening your mouth buddy🤦♂️
komigennufan bro you’re bring up RUSSIA into this 💀 if you knew anything, Russia was one of saddam’s greatest funders 🤦♂️ if Iran even got a little bit of support from Russia, they knew how to use it. Iraq didn’t, that’s the difference
"Iraq tried to break Iran's morale by bombing their civilians, but it had the opposite effect"
See also: Nazi Germany and the UK.
what a horrible comparison this is what i call godwins law
James Leran Earth is trolling its people But thats exactly what happend in WW1 and WW2.
Germany didn't start targeting British civilians until the British had already started bombing German cities. Hitler, especially early on, still held on to hope that he could declare peace with UK in a few months and the two races could possibly form an alliance against US one day (the real string-pullers of 'international jewry'). UK bombed non-military targets first, in the hopes of hitting logistics targets in 1940.
Wow wtf is everyone saying in reply to your comment.
On the precise matter of bombing civilians to reduce their moral but ended up having the opposite effect - the comparison is sound. Although both the British and Germans tried and failed at this.
Hitler wanting peace with the UK? If you have a source to this please share. I think you're referring to the unofficial stalemate which happened when Germany made it across the European continent to the west but couldn't cross the sea to Britain. This only happened as Britain's Navy was significantly more powerful that Germany's. It was then when Hitler broke the non-aggressive pact with USSR and tried to invade them.
From memory I do believe it true the British bombed German civilians first, in Berlin. I have read the squadron which did this became lost as night runs were a relatively new tactic and bombed Berlin by mistake. Hitler then retaliated with his own bombing runs on civilians. Even still, the Brits did cross the line with their civilian bombing runs which forced even themselves to question how far they were going. WW2 was pretty fucked.
Or the Japanese and pearl harbor
Well I'll be damned... That was the most I learned about anything In three minutes. Thank you for posting.
+Matthew Prior Glad to hear it man
Jabzy i hope to see battle of karbala next.
*4 minutes
I can see why Iran thinks the rest of the world is against them; too many countries were supplying someone who invaded them.
@komigennufan Iran is the only country that fights terrorism, you're mistaking Saudi Arabia and US with Iran.
@komigennufan Hezbollah is a defensive well trained army.
It's because these are hegemonic satanic countries! And that reason you mentioned is part of it!
Saudi is the HQ of evil in middle east.
komigennufan hahah Hezbollah is in Lebanon not Afghanistan you know what your government did when the soviets invaded Afghanistan they created al Queada to kill the communist and then Al Queada used American tax payer money to fly the planes in the towers search it up. Tell me how Hezbollah is a terrorist group give me a example and I will contour you with something bad the U.S did hell I will even pre counter you the U.S blew up a Iranian passenger plane killed 275 people including 75 children , theplane did nothing wrong as proven in U.S data bases . It was 100% authorized to fly an what happened after that the U.S said they are sorry then gave the captain that shoot down the plane a metal. Look at all the countries th U.S is in Iraq,Syria,Libya,Somalia tell me that your proud of what they did. If it wasn’t for America ISIS wouldn’t even be able to step an inch in Iraq with the power Paul army.
The ironic thing is that Israel were supplying the Iranians during the war. But then Iran decided to turn Israel into their enemies too.
The old Iranian regime were allies with Israel,so Israel wanted to keep Iran as an ally,however,it is believed the Israel supported the Kurds after they were bombed by Iraq(Israel)
+Oliver Morland Israel wasn't supplying Iran with weapons to maintain Iranian support for them. In the video, the Iran-Contra affairs is mentioned. Basically, US president Ronald Reagan wanted to keep funding the Contra fighters in Nicaragua, but Congress refused to pass it. So he decided to secretly sell weapons to Iran and use the proceeds to keep funding the Contras. Now to do all this "secretly" is where Israel came into play. And why did they fund Iran of all? People may have different views about this, if you watch the movie "Lord of War", there is scene which shows an Israeli arms dealer boasting to the protagonist of the movie, played by Nicolas Cage, that he sold weapons to both Iran and Iraq during the 1980s war. When Cage argued that the arms dealers was just a businessman without any political motives and he didn't care as to who won or who lost, the dealer replied, "Did it never occurred to you that I wanted both the countries to lose?"
Sabbir Saadat That's interesting. But I still think Israel's government was in favour of Iran during the war, mainly because Iraq was so hostile to Israel and Iran had been much less hostile to Israel before the revolution. And they probably hoped that would continue with post-shah Iran.
Oliver Morland Pre-revolution Iran (an Iran with more civil and religious liberties but a puppet US dictatorship with a brutal secret police force, the Savaks, suppressing any kind of political dissent or calls for reform) is entirely at odds with the post revolution one (a theocratic regime pioneering in the slogan "death to America"). I believe people in Israeli politics were informed and shrewd enough to realize that now they had not one, but two formidable foes.
+Oliver Morland Without help from Israel, Iran would not have been successfull in the few battles which they managed to win. Israel gave the Khomeini regime spare parts for their fighter aircraft and their US made tanks, and also gave them hundreds of TOW launchers + missiles and spare parts + missiles for HAWK SAM. At the same time Iranians were shouting Death to USA and Death to Israel and Khomeini held speeches during every friday prayers, denying getting helped by the same countries he vowed to destroy, it was a spectacle bizarre scene.
This video is great, but Khomeni's eyes at 0:30 killed me xD
Hello from Mexico,
I was very young when I used to watch almost everyday the 2:00 o'clock news, the news on the PERSIAN GOLF WAR, that's what they called it back then and I never understood quite well what was this war about, and I am sure most of the mexicans didn't either, we only used to say "poor people, why are they fighting???, there must be a lot of people dying in both countries" and so on.
Today is clear to me, that many wars in this region have been caused or at least encouraged by foreign interests, shame on them for doing such an evil act of destruction.
I just hope there's a god so he can make them pay for what they have done!!!
How is this war, in specific, caused by foreign interests? This seems to be motivated by the interests of Iran and Iraq, and much of the Cold War in the Middle East was fomented by Middle Eastern nations. No doubt, foreign interests were involved, but saying it was the root cause is foolish.
RYAN_CHAPELLE Read the history of these countries and you will find countries like England, France and the U.S., deeply involved.
thank you for being educated 😚
people don't know the foreign powers that get in between these countries and push them to fight
I am actually from Iraq and I read the history of middle east it was mostly effected by UK and france
Dependes how you look at it, one way to look is that if Iran still had that democratic government that was dropped by foreign powers, there would have been no war at all.
Because Iran was defending itself.
The sad part is that sadam forced people to fight of not so they got killed while iran got people to chose if the want to fight or not
Not true both countries did so and many countries do to this day it’s called conscription and Iran sent child soldiers also Iran is unable to help their vets from the war
I like the F-5 and Badger bomber art you did for this one.
Great video as always, thanks!
leakycheese Chris, you have an eye for planes.
leakycheese I
These videos are great man, I don't understand how you're relatively small on youtube.
time when saddam was a dear of USA
Ughh
R U gay?.. on the contrary! go and check Iran weapons it's all American and Israeli weapons perhaps Iraq then have only Soviet and Chinese weapons..we know who dear if US then😅
@@user-ey6uh3iu9z dumb ass first learn how to write properly and secondly they provided all the logistic support to saddam at that time when he started his offense against Iran.. Go first read a history then come here
Don't forget Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and others
@@user-ey6uh3iu9z the US gave the weapons to their Shah minion before the revolution. American minions in the region are still reliant on their weapons and military bases while Iranians are developing their own weapons.
thanks a ton for such precise and accurate explanation ! you saved my two hours :)
Ha, glad to hear it.
it was not precice nor accurate. Who gave iraq the poisen gas? Why was Iran a theocraty? Why did the US support the illigal attack war?
Dont forget to show how damaging the US politics were. Iran once was a democracy, thanks to the usa, they are now a theocratic goverment.
Iran's modern government is the most democratic Iran has ever had, the Shah slaughtered all his opponents and the U.S happily backed him. The Shah didn't even try to make his constitution look real.
BTW the US supported Iraq because it hoped that Iraq would topple the Islamic republic and restore the pro-western Shah
You sound like a wacko bruh
Now iraq colonized by iran .lol 🇮🇷🗿
Because usa not because iran
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You forgot to add Syria on Iran's side.
And Israel, believe it or not.
anonymous anonymous
I don't.
BountyFlamor Israel supported Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
iran destroyed iraq nuclear weapons. search Operation Scorch Sword
anonymous anonymous
How exactly? And don't link me to Wikipedia. The article in the footnote there just has an Israeli considering joining forces with Iran since they have a common enemy now.
78 country VS iran
30-40 countries helped Iran heavily and secrelty. It is impossible to fight an eight-year alone and without support.
this was a really neat video. the other vids on this subject are atleast 30 mins long so thank you, my friend
That was very good and much simplified; good posting
This is the most accurate video i've seen. seriously
Ashton Adrouzi Thanks a lot
Jabzy You mixed up the current Supreme Leader Khamenei with Khomeini 1-Khomeni NOT Khamenei. So gotta change that Khamenei image. 2-Iran's Khuzestan over the years was diluted from a solid Arab majority due to the settling of Farsi speakers from the heartland by the Shahs. But as someone just pointed out it's majority Arab.
+Jabzy With the help of chemical weapons?!!!!
*****
Relax baba. I know about most of these things. But if you look into it, you'll see that since the time of Reza Shah, they had been moving Farsi-speakers from Yazd and central Iran into those areas to dilute it. But yeah it's majority Arab.
And I can talk however I want to. I was 6 years old when the war ended. Whatever I know is from second hand accounts. I still have some faint memories of Iraqi planes flying over Tehran. That's it. And Shah giving away Bahrain? Has nothing to do with me dude.
Monarchists? Are you kidding me? They're either dead or about to die or are so irrelevant that nobody even remembers them. If you look around a little, you'll see that the two Shahs both moved Farsi people into Iran's non-Farsi areas. Khuzestan was no exception. Sheikh Khazal was one such separatist. Your stats and tale about the early days of the Iran-Iraq war could be right. But the point is that, ethnic dilution has been going on there for years. They changed the name of "GharaDagh" to "Siyah-Kooh" and have been changing names of Azerbainjan's cities to Farsi names. It won't change the majority language that people speak there, but it shows that this government, as well as the last one, is trying to deal with Iran's ethnic diversity by making them all Farsi which is stupid. There's a better way to handle this. All they gotta do is give them some rights, such as local language classes and what not.
Great content as always!
Why did you stop doing lists? They were cool
Also, I think it would be great to see you focus on some great historical personalities like Galileo, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Joan of Arc, Alcibiades, Caesar, soo many! :)
ChessArt I've just been bogged down at work and spend a load of time making the 3 Minute History videos. What I'm hoping to do is wait until I have a few more subscribers and ask for help in suggestions for lists because it used to take me too long to decide on a list.
This video really helped me with preparing for part of my history final, thank you!!
Thanks for making this video, I now understand this war in just 3 minutes.
also syria was the only arab country on irans side.
No the government is on irans side but the people are on iraqs side
You are completely wrong, Libya was also firmly on Iran’s side
you got yourself a new subscriber and thx for informing ppl about this war and how all super powers supported iraq.
***** Thanks a lot
this war was the biggest mistake :(
Daniar Khaleel
@@daniarassyrian8907It was Saddam's mistake to try and invade Iran and then Kuwait. Saddam considered himself very powerful so he tried invading whoever he considered a threat to his power. Unfortunately, Saddam's aggression against Shias in Iraq not only resulted in American invasion in Iraq but also resulted in the growth and secterianism and therefore the growth of groups like ISIS in Iraq. Iraq faces the consequences of Saddam's actions today.
We Iranian Have fought With the world not just Iraq
and we didn't gave even one Cm from our soil
+sahand soleymani Well I lost hope in humanity
+supermariobros272 me too
but never lose hope there is always a way
sahand soleymani True...by the way I'm not iranian...I'm a arab but I do wish peace for both of us...but you know that's kind of a wish
Goes to show you how Iran, fighting with the leftover weapons, aircraft & navy from Shah's army against the entire world, was becoming an unstoppable super power under Shah. Iranian ppl did Shah wrong. Hope he forgives us.
komigennufan Not even close. Iran didn't use chemical weapons either. it was basically Iran vs the world, and Iran won of curse.
Could you do some more modern stuff? Thank you sooooo much!!! These are so helpful.
70 % population of khuzestan is not Arabs. They are Lors and Persians. False informations!!
thanks man you deserve way more views for all of your videos!
QGamerQ To be honest I'm surprised this many people are watching my videos.
Jabzy
you make great summaries about historic events without bias. that's unique.
Jabzy subscribed :)
Love your videos, you have earned your self a new sub!
Great video!! Needless to say I subbed :)
Keep up the good work
Brooklyn Knight Thanks a lot.
Change the title to the world vs iran war
Actually these countries just supported iraq but in iraq war they all was directly involved
its kinda like the yugoslav wars... when bosnians started pushing into serbia after taking sarajevo back the UN forced peace talks through bombing yet did nothing as the serbs genocided the croats and bosnians. In the iran-iraq war the UN only got involved for their own interests. UN is just a useless group of bullies that help their allies gang up on who they dont like to get what they want. Fuck the UN!
an Arab here, but I agree with u. u guys were brave AF. gg wp (gaming words lol)
Ahmed El-Ibiary thanks to Allah.
lol we are Muslim too. but we arent nut jobs who have a brigade dedicated to clearing mine fields with their own fucking bodies. Maybe its because they were defending their homeland or soemthing
Iran and Iraq both became militarized after oil prices steeped.
Saddam had the 5th largest army in the world, and the Shah had 4th.
They had many military quarrels, the last of which was over Shattul Arab (aka Arvand River) in which the Shah took control of the river using his military might.
Now Khomeini was exiled into Saddam’s Iraq for several years during Shah’s reign, and was fully aware of how Saddam does things.
When he took power after the revolution, he called for another revolution of the Iraqi people to topple Saddam’s regime and replace it with an Islamic one, and the calls were heeded by many Iraqis.
This, and the shaky state of Iranian military compared to Shah’s time, as well as the green light from the West, led Saddam to initiate the attack.
Thanks for the video man! I'm going to use it for my project.
Good luck with it.
ITS 4:00 + YOU LIE
Another good video!
2:07 Until about 1986 there were still Iranian city's under iraqi controls.
Also the reason that iran continued was not to take a chunk but to Iraq be known as starter of war in UN resolution and stopping Sadam from attacking because a ceasefire would get him a chance to regroup his army.
Although after resolution 598 still was some conflicts and even after while Sadam being unpunished attacked Kuwait.
I love you Iran
🏴 🇮🇷
I love you England 🇮🇷 🏴
love the art work specially the faces xD thanks nicely explained
Keep up the good work!
I hope the relations between Iraq and Iran are better now almost 3 decades after the war.
It's so sad to see so many people dying because of wars all over the world
The last war we really fought here in Brazil has almost two centuries now.
I guess we forget sometimes how lucky we are
They are, Iraq is basically a Iranian puppet now.
Isn't an american puppet?
not really
Dynamitrix 100 wtf do mean puppet they love iran
they are unified as fuck
The Government is Shia and in relatively very good relations with Iran. However, due to the Proxy conflict, the people aren't very fond of Iran.
khuzestan isnt mainly inhabited by arabs as its 75% ethnically Persian (Lurs and bakhtiaris inckuded). only the city of ahvaz is majority arab, nd thats only by a small percentage.
Great video. I really hope you'll get more and more views and subs for this good content.
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I like ure videos. Please can u make the Korean war?
Hi Jabzy, as a fellow CZcamsr I should thank you for your unbiased short summary of Iran Iraq war. The horrific war that scarred so many families and held back to societies for decades.
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As an Iranian expatriate however, I again need to thank you for maintaining impartiality in the midst of such noisy media propaganda.
all the best
A.M.G.
wtf this war was crazier than I thought...if I was living thru this I would have thought the world was ending
Very well done!
Nice Oliver North drawing. Spot on.
so Iraq was receiving weapons from the rest of the world and they even used chemical weapons and still lost the fight.... all my respect for all the Iraninans who fought against Iraq... no respect for Iraq for fight such an unfair fight ....
Except of Israel, USA , USSR, French, Syria and Libya who supported Iran! Also Iranians bombed Iraqi schools, universities and they used chemical weapons 🙂 I don't know if you are a really fool or they fooled you
@@mohammedkh4321 not true and you know
@@mohammedkh4321lying 🤥 arab
Iranians have shown that they can be united when the time comes. Doesnt matter if they like or dont like their government. They fight for eachother and also for others.
Jazby, you are an awesome person. Your efforts bring knowledge easily to thousands of others. In fact, what others must pay lots of money and spend lots of time to obtain, you offer for free and in easy words. Your choices are also fantastic. Corners of history and culture. Good job bro! I do appreciate your second to non oeuvre.
Thanks a lot man - I appreciate it.
Very adequate description, really. It's difficult to accurately describe many contemporary wars without also adopting a bias, but you've handled the Iran-Iraq War with the careful objectivity so many professional historians and journalists unfortunately seem to lack. Bravo, truly
BostonFenian Thanks a lot man.
and now IRAN have bigest army in iraq-syria-lebanon-yeman and iraq is on IRAN hand
thats why they are backward and primitive nd failed states just like Iran
SADEGH KSHZ Saudi wins your country is poor
@@hamidalamri8472 go cry and spread propaganda somewhere else. It hurted so much you lost you go and cry and spread fake info on youtube? Sad.
Hi! Can you add subititles or atleast open the video for user submitted subtitles! Thank you so much
Iraq's victory? LOL who's controlling Iraq now? Iran
number1uk no they aren't lol
@@carljohnson2194 go cry and spread propaganda somewhere else. It hurted so much you lost you go and cry and spread fake info on youtube? Sad.
@@bratkobramka2151 That was long back.Now I support iran
They seem to get along now for the most part
Literally one of the most unnecessary wars of all time.
You don't understand the Sunni vs Shiite dispute. It is extremely important in that part of the world. It has been going on for more than 13 centuries now.
For sure
Aye it is.
@@smartjoe5258 Shias were a thing with the Safavids, it has not been 13 centuries, more like 6
it's was the like the WW1(between france and germany)
Well weak won the strong unlike ww1 which strong overcomes weak
+Hamed Hosseini you've horribly over simplified ww1. To the point of your statement being incorrect.
Hakim Shepherd hmm?
Franco-Prussian war you mean bud
+MILINATION .MILIANO you are absolutely right. The conflict was remarkably similar to the Western Front of the First World War. It was an anachronism of a modern conflict fought with modern weapons using ancient tactics. It was a war fought with trenches and chemical weapons, barbed wire and artillery, airplanes and naval blockades. It was long, drawn out, bloody war which greatly traumatized the populations of both sides and sowed the seeds for future conflicts. It was also a war born from very old historical rivalries. Iran and the Ottoman Empire had fought numerous wars over Mesopotamia, which had historically been a Persian heartland and the location of many of Iran's great ancient capitals like Ctesiphon.
Very well done I'm currently half way through Iran Iraq war by Pierre razoux its crazy how
Much meddling the super powers and other nations had in both countries affairs
Iran recaptured Basra in 1986 during the first battle of al-faw and operation Karbala 5. They held it until the Iraqis counter-attacks in 1988 and Iran also bombed Baghdad for revenge on the bombings of Tehran.
Iran never captured Bastra 🤦🏽♂🤦🏽♂
So Iran has more people, a better airforce, a better navy...
Saddam, why did you think this was a good idea?😂
Because if you have a bully right next, you dont allow him to take advantage of you, you sink your fist right into his teeth.
That is the Iraqi way
@komigennufan The killed soldiers in the war does not count. Importantly, Iran has conquered its territories (Khoramshar). IRAN WIN
Iran have lost 750 000 people !!!
@@Zaenbnews go cry and spread propaganda somewhere else. It hurted so much you lost you go and cry and spread fake info on youtube? Sad.
@@argadargad9128 Iraq was a colonial puppet causing infighting and invading nearby countries at the US's command, They claim to denounce Israel but it seems they have taken every step towards achieving Israel's goals, Saddam Hussein was imprisoning, Killing and torturing Shiites, Kurds and other minorities, Iran aided a revolution against an oppressive regime and they fought Iraq and her many collaborators with old Shah era weapons and still won not as the bully but against him.
It's interesting to note that a few years before the start of the Iran Iraq war, Saddam sent a division into Iran, over the Shat Al Arab waterway. The Iranian air force, by itself, wiped out Saddam's tank division in one stroke and this convinced Saddam to avoid escalating the conflict. After the revolution, the Iranian military experienced the second largest military purge of the 20th century (after Stalin's purges prior to WW2 in the eastern front which allowed Hitler to swarm into Russia initially almost unopposed) Half of Iran's soldiers had defected during the revolution, 5000 PLUS of the top officers had been purged, imprisoned or assassinated and all the top generals had been purged as well. Basically Iran's military was a shadow of it's pre revolutionary self. Saddam on the other hand had the latest tanks from the Soviet Union and the latest jets from France, along with intel from the US and unlimited funding from the Persian Gulf Arab States.
Despite all this, after the first 2 years of fighting, Saddam's forces had been repelled from all Iranian territories and Saddam and Saudi Arabia offered Iran hundreds of billions to cease fighting, but Khomeini was convinced that his military could conquer all of Iraq within another year or two. If it had not been for the massive loans given to Saddam by the Persian Gulf Arab states, like the first loan of 250 BILLION (remember this is back then, it would be worth trillions today) Saddam's regime would have gone bankrupt and lost the war because of lack of supplies. In the end, even with the loans, the Iranians were on the verge of victory, so along with the satellite imagery, which helped guide the Iraqi artillery against Iranian positions, the US and Germany sold Saddam chemical weapons, which he used not only on Iranian soldiers and civilians but also on his own northern Kurdish population, wiping out entire villages.
In the end, the war left millions dead and wounded and had the opposite effect of strengthening Khomeini's Iranian regime, as opposed to weakening it, which is what the west and Saddam were initially expecting.
The intelligence by itself was crucial, as the united states began to step up its satellite imagery after Iran captured al faw, as they were fearing that Iraq will next lose basra. The satellite imagery was a crucial factor that led to operation karbala 4 not being able to capture abu al hasib and umm al rasas and the martyrdom of many combat divers who were buried alive after being captured. Iran learnt from this and then began to train its UAV crews and used them for reconnaissance, which helped photograph images of iraqi fortifications for the successful operation karbala 5
Hay how does it sound if you do the Russian civil war as your next short history videos
iran was the winer of the war. why?! well, look at where iran is standing today n look what happened to iraq. the real victor will appear atleast after a decade of finishing war
+ane khoda What happened to Iraq was mostly thanks to the USA, dont try to give Iran credit for that job
+Overlord 854 u need to think deeper mate then u understand what im trying to say. even the US invation iraq was bcs of the lack of power in iraq, n it was still related to the 8 yrs full scale war with iran. otherwise iran was under sanction too just like iraq
+Overlord 854 actually irans jeopolitics is very unic. there are only two countries on earth that can be at a huge war for 10 yrs n still able to handle themselves n survive, its the US n Iran. china n india could be aswell but their population is too high, n they wont be able to feed their ppl
Still Iran wasnt the core of Iraq's problems, they destroyed themselves with stupid decisions and poor administration, but Iran was not the winner in that war no one was
+Overlord 854 so except those two the rest of the world can not handle such a war, specially a war like iran,iraq war, cuz it was iran on one side n 84 countries united againts iran on the under side arming seddam army to its teeth.
its very interesting if u take time n search, u find things that u could never think by ur own
3 Minutes history.
*4 minutes*
World vs iran
@@whatwhat887 No Iraq has lost Khoramshahr
@@Rikifighter
You have lose karmanshah hahaha
And now in syria who fight there
Only the arab shia
no iranian shia
@@Zaenbnews go cry and spread propaganda somewhere else. It hurted so much you lost you go and cry and spread fake info on youtube? Sad.
This is pretty good as far as it goes but it's a bit loose with the timeline. The gassing of the Kurds at Halabja was very late in the war. Otherwise, it covers many of the major issues. The only thing I'd add - more for general information than total assessment - is the inclusion of the basij, Iranian child soldiers who were frequently slaughtered in those human wave assaults..
damn that song. it sounds so familiar. what is it? i barely remember it...
i'm iranian and i'm 8 year in the war.1980 to 1988 and this war is very very bad.100000 people is die in 6 years and 1000000 die in the 8 year.
1:23 Israel also gave Iran weapons.
amin nadim It did during the Iran Iraq war. In fact, they both shared a mutual dislike for the arab nations so they did work together at times. But now their relationship has deteriorated into bitter hatred.
I wish Iran and Israel could be friends again. They're the only two non-Arab countries in the Middle East.
TheCompulsiveWinner Iran doesn't hold relations with Israel because unlike the Arab countries, Iran doesn't put up with their shit.
Also, Iran is a strong ally of Hezbollah.
TheCompulsiveWinner what about the Turks?
+TheCompulsiveWinner So what ? Because they are both Non-Arabs they have to team up ? it's like saying ISIS and Iran has to team up because they are both muslims (this logic is retarted). You can have Arab freinds but you want to have a freind that wants to divide your countries into small pieces like it's doing to Iraq and Syria ? You are free to do that
This man is better than the entire U.S. Education system
This was a insanely brutal and vile war, unlike anything in modern history.
forget to mention where Saddam got the chemical weapon?
+Yee font 1:20
+Jabzy there is clue who should take responsibility of the humane devastate.
2:49 "The Iraqis dropped chemical and biological weapons on their villages."
Biological? I did not know that.
seneca983 yeah they killed around 182000 civilian kurds in their villages using mustard . A full on genocide.
Kian Reevs yea but that’s not biological.... mustard gas is a gas so it’s chemical ,biological would be a weaponized pathogen
This should have been an episode in the british documentary, 20th century battlefields.
Kindly add subtitles too
I say that as an Iraqi there are two reasons for the war
1_ Khomeini attempted to plant racism and differentiate between the two dominant sects (Sunnis and Shiites)
2_ Support them for the Kurdish revolution and the Pyramid of Algeria announced the Algiers Convention
oil just oil
Nice video and explanation. 1983 the war could have been over. Hundred thousands of lives could have been saved. But nobody in Iran questions the Regime why the war was continued, which caused the further death of thousands of Iranian Soldiers and citizens. Not to mention the shooting of an Iranian Airliner by an American Warship that took the life of hundreds of Iranians as well. Also why did the Regime took American diplomats as hostages for more than 400 days and isolated the country even further? Iranians should really bring up those questions. That would get the Mullahs in a lot of trouble.
We went further with the war because Iraq troops were heavily stationed at our borders,and we couldn't trust Saddam because he did had already broken a cease fire,so we invaded them,pushed them back,but then there was the idea of taking over Iraq,which was a bit suicidal at the time,so we got heavy casualties and the the US involvement happened and forced us to accept the 598 resolution,but then Saddam helped the MEK(Mujahedeen Khalgh) to invade Kermanshah.
Jst sub great videos dude
you may as well do The Gulf War if you haven't already done so.
JimBeam It's on the list
I am an Iranian - Canadian and was born during this war and to this day I suffer from thus wars effects and things I saw as a kid both countries leaders were stupid and for their own gain made their people suffer and so many lives were lost specially on irans side cause so many of the volunteer soldiers were kids as young as 12!!!!!
We Iraqis never wanted war with iran...stupid dictator saddam did and we love people of Iran and others
Whatever who won or lost and who stated it I'm sure that both people didn't want war and only uneducated people who get into it
Genuine_84 ,
first ,was really our leader stupid.
come on,if he was we are now lost our lands,second ,they start the war and we didnt do any thing to them,why do we say these things i have no idea,boy standing toward enemy has less expnses than let them beat u
Genuine_84 what fucking bullshit false information are you spreading?
Jabzy, you got pretty much everything right except at the end when Iraq went on the offensive the Iranians could not beat us back. Our 1988 offensives and occupation of much Iranian territory forced Khomayni to end the war, and then we pulled back.
No, false. Iraq withdrew after Iranian counterattacks after the failed Tawakalna Iraqi offensives which were intended as a surprise attack however the offensive bogged down into a stalemate, once Imam Khomeini issued speech urging all revolutionary fighters to go to the south. He was almost about to issue a fatwa for holy war. Seeing as Iraq couldn’t hold onto south, they withdrew and we even had the potential to re invade Iraq however Imam Khomeini forbade it. Iraq then became desperate and funded MEK to invade but once again they were crushed during Operation Mersad. Typical butthurt baathist upset he lost the war lying to deceive others from his failure
What did Persia have to do with the Waterway again?
Iraq being supported so much during the war with Iran meant that even if it was despised on the world stage, Iraq wasn’t super worried when they invaded Kuwait. How fast the West was willing to condemn countries on the edge of their sphere of influence was a surprise to Saddam, and something he kept trying to bring up a lot during his trail (alongside a lot of other things).
Saddam was on the soviet sphere of influence not American
that was not the case, at the end Iraq destroyed the Iranian Army and had the chance to take over Iran, but they did not want to have more losses in that war, plus the US pushed the UN to help stopping the war.
IRAN Vs WORLD
@komigennufan its true tho
komigennufan you’re in denial buddy. The real loser is the one who can’t accept reality
komigennufan reality is that the world superpowers funded Iraq’s military while Iran was fresh out of a revolution with no management. Whether this is about Islam is subjective, but it definitely was iran vs the world
komigennufan komigennufan bruh what have you been reading. Russia funded Iraq, not Iran because Khomeini was against communists. China did not give support, Iran just bought weapons from them. Regarding Israel that’s ridiculous, they are mortal enemies. I’m sorry but Syria Libya and North Korea don’t compare to the support Iraq was given. I didn’t learn this from Khomeini, this is literal facts
komigennufan if you do one quick google search, you’d know that Russia supported Iraq WAY more than it did to iran. It’s also speculated that Israel sold $100M worth of weapons to Iran. Now compare that to $46 BILLION worth of funding iraq received just from SA, Kuwait, and the UAE alone. Iraq still failed its invasion 💀 this is why iran won
In 1988, Iraq defeated Iran, and Khomeini himself said, “I drank poison after the Iraqis recaptured Al-Faw,” and because they recaptured Al-Faw, Khomeini’s nose was broken and the ceasefire was forced, and this is the truth without lying. I love Iraq more than Russia 🇮🇶
V instructive
So Kuwait helped Saddam, which he then repaid with attacking them a few years later
Kuwait was neutral from 1980-1982. In 1982, the Iranians tried to assassinate Kuwait's leadership, so, the Kuwaitis started helping the Iraqis along with over Gulf countries. Those other countries, like Saudia Arabia, waived Iraq's debt to them. However, Kuwait was slant-drilling into Iraqi oil fields & selling more than their OPEC quota, lowering oil prices and damaging Iraq's economy.
So, Saddam got pissed that they were ungrateful and invaded.
America brought the regim to Iran.
America also gave the Shah to Iran, there best leader.
The video was good, but one mistake was that Khuzestan was never disputed, Iraq started to make the revisionist claim to Irans Khuzestan during abd al Karim Qasim to make himself look more nationist to Iraq's Sunni Arab elite, but failed and was killed in an American supported Batthist coup.
Anyone know the backround music/theme?
Jabzy, you got pretty much everything right except at the end when Iraq went on the offensive the Iranians could not beat us back, after Khomayni submitted to the ceasefire proposal, we withdrew from Iranian territory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawakalna_ala_Allah_Operations
I'm just wondering didn't Israel supply Iran and trained Iranian troops which helped push Iraqis back from Iran and gain superiority.
***** Well The majority of Iran's air force was trained by Israel in the 80's, 30 tanks that originally made in Israel, troops and generals advised by Israel and some in Israel, Israel destroying Iraq's WMD's capabilities, The Iran contra Affair and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan would disagree with you on how alone Iran really was.
***** No there is clear evidence that Israel was helping the Iranian military as it states "throughout the war there was always a couple hundred Israeli advisors in Tehran". This all happened after the revolution.
As well Iran was supporting Shia Mujahideen against the USSR which came in contact frequently with Israel, China, Egypt and Turkey building relations to arm and fight off Soviets from threatening the region even more if they would've won the war. And again this was during the Iran Iraq war and after the Shah was overthrown.
They supported iran in the war
***** ???
*****
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Iran_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war
Maybe you should read this before making false accusations.
Links at the end of your video aren't working.
It would be great if ypu put the names on the countries. confused :$
Uranian or Iranian??? get your pronunciation right !!!!!!!
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Long live IRGC
Unfortunately Iran has always been subject to the worst atrocities and yet they are portrayed in the media as the hostile one ! but yet I think it was us who always us who brought it upon us !
I didn't know Stewie was an historian!
I spoke with an Iranian fighter pilot during the shah and he said the II war was khomeni's fault not Saddam's khomeni were giving orders to militias with ties to start a bombing campaign in Iraq.
Iran thought Iraq was like KSA where they can harrass them, support this militia or that militia but the Iraqi response came swift
@@eliza1826 Iranians did all sort of bad things too and bombed Iraqi civilians.
Israel provided arms to Iran covertly during the Iran-Iraq war
It also supplied a lot of technical support to the Iranian air force.
Yeah jabzy forgot Israeli military aid for Iranian army and air force
Don't say nonsense here I am iranian Iran was alone in that war
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Anyone here after watching Netflix's "Mosul" argue scene?
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@komigennufan so a failed invasion is now a win? the more you learn
komigennufan it literally was an invasion according to everyone..idk what saddam taught you
komigennufan “pretty quick invasion”. See idk about that. Saddam was so cocky he said “I’ll make an announcement in Tehran after tomorrow”, implying how easy and quick it’ll be to invade, but couldn’t get passed the border for over 40 days 🤐 regardless of saddam’s motives, the intent was to invade and he failed, hence why I said “manly moustache” didn’t win for shit lmao
komigennufan no it’s not empty talk, he 100% believed he could. He thought that getting billions of dollars of aid from global superpowers was enough to crush a new born nation. Anyone would think that. Whatever he said, one of his motives was to take the Arab populated part of Iran (khuzestan) as there is a lot of oil there, so that could very well be “empty talk” as well. Moreover, Iran pretty much controls Iraq today (not that I agree with), so I doubt Iraqis ultimately won. Most Iraqis side with Iran anyways since they’re Shia. “Saddam knew exactly the UN laws”...yeah that’s why he invaded Kuwait..maybe “you” should think before opening your mouth buddy🤦♂️
komigennufan bro you’re bring up RUSSIA into this 💀 if you knew anything, Russia was one of saddam’s greatest funders 🤦♂️ if Iran even got a little bit of support from Russia, they knew how to use it. Iraq didn’t, that’s the difference