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(June 2015) </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Iran--Iraq War </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Part of the Persian Gulf conflicts </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Participation of child soldiers on Iranian front (top left); Iranian soldier wearing a gas mask (top right); Port quarter view of USS Stark listing to port after being mistakenly struck by an Iraqi warplane (middle left); Pro-Iraq PMOI forces killed in Operation Mersad (middle right); Iraqi prisoners of war after the re-capture of Khorramshahr by Iranians (below left); ZU - 23 - 2 being used by the Iranian Army (below right). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> 22 September 1980--20 August 1988 (7 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> Stalemate; both sides claim victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Iraqi failure to annex Iranian territories and bolster Arab separatism in Khuzestan Province of Iran </Li> <Li> Iranian failure to topple Saddam Hussein and destroy Iraqi military power as well as inspire sectarian divide in Iraq </Li> <Li> United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> "Status quo ante bellum"; observed by United Nations Iran--Iraq Military Observer Group based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 619 </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> Iran KDP PUK ISCI </P> Support: (show) <Ul> <Li> Islamic Dawa Party </Li> <Li> Syria </Li> <Li> (For other forms of foreign support, see here) </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Iraq PMOI DRFLA </P> Support: (show) <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union </Li> <Li> France </Li> <Li> United States </Li> <Li> United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Saudi Arabia </Li> <Li> Kuwait </Li> <Li> Jordan </Li> <Li> (For other forms of foreign support, see here) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> Ruhollah Khomeini (Supreme Leader of Iran) </P> Others: (show) <Ul> <Li> Abulhassan Banisadr (President of Iran, initially the commander - in - chief, impeached and ousted in 1981) </Li> <Li> Mohammad - Ali Rajai (President of Iran, assassinated in 1981) </Li> <Li> Ali Khamenei (President of Iran) </Li> <Li> Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Head of Parliament and member of Supreme National Defence Council, lately the commander - in - chief) </Li> <Li> Mohammad - Javad Bahonar (Prime Minister of Iran, assassinated in 1981) </Li> <Li> Mir - Hossein Mousavi (Prime Minister of Iran) </Li> <Li> Valiollah Fallahi, Brig. Gen . (Chief of Staff, killed in plane crash in 1981) </Li> <Li> Qasem - Ali Zahirnejad, Brig. Gen . (Chief of Staff) </Li> <Li> Esmaeil Sohrabi, Colonel (Chief of Staff) </Li> <Li> Ali Shahbazi, Brig. Gen . (Chief of Staff) </Li> <Li> Mohsen Rezaee (Commander of IRGC) </Li> <Li> Massoud Barzani (Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party) </Li> <Li> Jalal Talabani (Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) </Li> <Li> Chenar Faraj (Leader of the Peshmerga) </Li> <Li> Nawshirwan Mustafa (Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) </Li> <Li> Mohammed Baqir al - Hakim (Leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq) </Li> <Li> Abdul Aziz al - Hakim (Leader of the ISCI Military Wing) </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Saddam Hussein (President of Iraq) </P> Others: (show) <Ul> <Li> Ali Hassan al - Majid (General and Iraqi Intelligence Service head) </Li> <Li> Taha Yassin Ramadan (General and Deputy Party Secretary) </Li> <Li> Izzat Ibrahim ad - Douri (Deputy chairman, Revolutionary Command Council) </Li> <Li> Abid Hamid Mahmud (Lieutenant General) </Li> <Li> Salah Aboud Mahmoud (General) </Li> <Li> Tariq Aziz (Foreign Minister and Revolutionary Command Council member) </Li> <Li> Adnan Khairallah (Minister of Defence) </Li> <Li> Saddam Kamel (Republican Guard commander) </Li> <Li> Uday Hussein (Son of Saddam Hussein) </Li> <Li> Qusay Hussein (Son of Saddam Hussein) </Li> <Li> Maher Abd al - Rashid (General) </Li> <Li> Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (Leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan) </Li> <Li> Massoud Rajavi (President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran) </Li> <Li> Maryam Rajavi (Co-leader of the PMOI) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Units involved </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> see order of battle </Td> <Td> see order of battle </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> At the onset of the war: 110,000--150,000 soldiers, 1,700--2,100 tanks, (500 operable) 1,000 armoured vehicles, 300 operable artillery pieces, 485 fighter - bombers (~ 100 operable), 750 helicopters After Iraq withdrew from Iran in 1982: 350,000 soldiers, 700 tanks, 2,700 armoured vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 350 aircraft, 700 helicopters early 1988: 600,000 soldiers, 1,000 operable tanks, 800 armoured vehicles, 600 heavy artillery pieces, 60--80 fighter - bombers, 70--90 helicopters </Td> <Td> At the onset of the war: 200,000 soldiers, 2,800 tanks, 4,000 APCs, 1,400 artillery pieces, 380 fighter - bombers, 350 helicopters After Iraq withdrew from Iran in 1982: 175,000 soldiers, 1,200 tanks, 2,300 armoured vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 450 aircraft, 180 helicopters At the end of the war: 1,500,000 soldiers, ~ 5,000 tanks, 8,500--10,000 APCs, 6,000--12,000 artillery pieces, 900 fighter - bombers, 1,000 helicopters </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> 123,220--160,000 KIA and 60,711 MIA (Iranian claim) 200,000--600,000 killed (other estimates) 800,000 killed (Iraqi claim) 320,000--500,000 WIA 40,000--42,875 POW 11,000--16,000 civilian dead </P> Economic loss of US $627 billion </Td> <Td> <P> 105,000--375,000 killed 250,000--500,000 (other estimates) 400,000 WIA 70,000 POW </P> Economic loss of $561 billion </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <P> 100,000 + civilians killed on both sides (not including 50,000--100,000 civilians killed in the Al - Anfal campaign) </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> 1 The exact number of Iraqi Shia that fought alongside Iran is unknown . The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and Islamic Dawa Party supported Iran during the war . Iran would sometimes organise divisions of Iraqi POWs to fight against Iraq . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Iran--Iraq War </Th> </Tr>

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