September 4, 1980
A Short Summary
The Iran-Iraq war did not start on September 22, 1980, as has been reported in the Arab and world media, but rather before that.
Iraq considers the fourth of September 1980 as the first day of the outbreak of the Iraq-Iran war, based on the artillery bombardment that Iran carried out on the Iraqi cities near the Iranian border in central Iraq (like Khanaqin and Mandali). The attacks were through the main land entrance to Khanaqin.
After Iraq succeeded in regaining the lands that the Iranian forces entered, Iran escalated its attack on Iraq by using its air forces in mid-September. As a result, the Iraqis shot down an Iranian airplane and captured its captain alive. This is a significant evidence that Iran is the initiator of the war.
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Between January and September, 2020 we published four parts about the Iran-Iraq war in both Arabic and English, which were written by military and media personnel who participated in the war. We plan to publish additional articles by December of this year about the battles that took place between 1983 and 1988 and shed light on the prisoners of war. We invite those who served in that war to contribute to this unique documentation and email your articles to our address : historyofiraq@gmail.com
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