1980-1988 war between Iran and Iraq
Documented facts
- Date
- 22 September 1980 (Gregorian) — 20 August 1988 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Iran
- Source coordinates
- 32.0000°, 53.0000°
Referenced participants
- Iraq ↗
- Iran ↗
- People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ↗
- Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan ↗
- Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq ↗
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ↗
- Kurdistan Democratic Party ↗
- Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan ↗
- Sudan ↗
- France ↗
- Soviet Union ↗
- United States ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Saddam Hussein — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ruhollah Khomeini — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mostafa Chamran — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hossein Kharrazi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ali Hassan al-Majid — documented participation · Source ↗
- Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri — documented participation · Source ↗
- Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti — documented participation · Source ↗
- Saber Abdel Aziz al-Douri — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wafiq al-Samarrai — documented participation · Source ↗
- Salah Aboud Mahmoud — documented participation · Source ↗
- Khaled al-Obaidi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis — documented participation · Source ↗
- Qasem Soleimani — documented participation · Source ↗
- Abd al-Ameer Yarallah — documented participation · Source ↗
- Abdul Ghani al-Asadi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ali Khamenei — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mojtaba Khamenei — documented participation · Source ↗
- Abolhassan Banisadr — documented participation · Source ↗
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hassan Rouhani — documented participation · Source ↗
- Masoud Pezeshkian — documented participation · Source ↗
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