Iran ‘won’ the war with Iraq but at a heavy price (Barbara Slavin, Abbas Kadhim, Atlantic Council)

September 24, 2021

When Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, many in the region and the wider world were not particularly sorry. One Arab diplomat at the United Nations said at the time that he was glad to see Iraq try “to destroy the myth of the Iranian revolution,” which had overthrown the Iranian monarchy a year earlier and was raising fears of similar regime change among the kingdoms and sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf.

Iran ‘won’ the war with Iraq but at a heavy price – Atlantic Council

Marco Emanuele

Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

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