Source: The Intercept
by Murtaza Hussain
“For nearly a decade in the 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the newly founded Islamic Republic of Iran waged a merciless war against each other. The fighting saw the return of World War I-style human-wave offensives, trench warfare, and chemical weapons attacks. Though it dragged on for years, the Iran-Iraq war benefited neither side. In the end, the conflict claimed the lives of over a million people, since, despite the carnage and wishes of ordinary people on both sides to end it, no diplomatic solution proved possible over eight years of fighting. There is good reason to worry that this ugly history is repeating itself today in Eastern Europe.” (03/09/23)
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/09/ukraine-war-russia-iran-iraq/