"Iran Bombarded Iraq Throughout the 1990s" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 Jul 2018 4:10 p.m. PST |
"Following the Persian Gulf War until the year 2001, Iran launched intermittent air and missile strikes against Iraq, targeting both the People's Mujahedin of Iran militant group — also known as the MEK, which the Saddam Hussein's regime hosted in the country — and the Iranian Kurdish opposition group the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran that had established itself in Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq launched its last push into Iran in August 1988, following eight years of bloody warfare between the two countries that ultimately claimed a million lives, combined. Iraqi warplanes supported a convoy of MEK fighters and dropped poison gas bombs. The MEK hoped that by seizing Iranian territory with Iraqi support, it could encourage a rebellion against the regime across Iran. This attempt failed miserably. Iranian troops ambushed and defeated the MEK forces…."
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 Legion 4  | 29 Jul 2018 2:37 p.m. PST |
And nothing really has changed since then but some of the names … |
| Tango01 | 30 Jul 2018 12:11 p.m. PST |
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| Thresher01 | 15 Aug 2018 9:50 a.m. PST |
AND, the Iranians are demanding "reparations" now. They certainly have a lot of hutzpah! |
| Legion 4 | 16 Aug 2018 8:05 a.m. PST |
Well they wanted all that money from the US a few years back … And the US gave it too them … in cash !  Pallets of it !  So maybe they thought they'd just get lucky … again ?  |
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